This policy from TechRepublic Premium will help you implement the backup environment that is appropriate for your company. It factors in onsite, remote and cloud operations and covers issues such as storage capacity, network bandwidth and access controls.

From the policy:

Defining criticality of data

Identifying the criticality of data is a key component in developing the most effective backup environment. The backup team should ask these questions:

What systems/data can we not survive without?

Where would data loss have the most impact on business operations?

The download comprises a policy and two appendixes in both PDF and Word document format.

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