Data Backup and Recovery

Backups of all College and Division-critical data should be made at least once per working day.

The backup regime should meet the following criteria:

• Enable recovery to at least the start of business on any weekday of a failure.
• Provide at least one more level of backup to a previous time, to cover the case of the failure of the primary backup media.
• There should be offsite storage of backup media to enable a full data recovery to no earlier than one working week.
• There should be an audit of backup media at least once every six months.

IT offers Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM, formerly known as "ADSM") as a network-based system back-up and recovery service for various computer platforms. For more information about this service, you can send email to tsm@uh.edu.