Type of Backup

Purpose

Frequency

Retention Duration

System Environment

VM Hot Spare

Failover/Instant Recovery

Simultaneous

N/A

Physical Host Configuration

Emergency recovery of host configuration and Hypervisor [LS1] system

Full backup: 1/week

Incremental backup: 1/day

Local: 1 week

Offsite: 2 weeks

VM System

Emergency recovery in the event of  management systems corruption

Full backup: 1/week

Incremental backup:  1/day

Local: 1 week

Offsite: 2 weeks

System Components

Configuration Files

Emergency recovery in the event of  single instance failure

Full backup: 1/day

or following periods of system configuration activity

Local: 1 Week

Offsite: 2 Weeks

Data Files

Emergency recovery of select data files in the event of identified systemic or user errors

Full backup: 1/week

Incremental backup:  1/day

Local: 2 Week

Offsite: 2 Weeks

Backup copy of data for local use by client

Permanent Archive

Conversion Files

Archive

Original database dump and managed layer shapefiles provided by client for system setup

Permanent

Startup Production Instance

Archive

Initial instance established for client

Permanent