DATA BACKUP: DO BUSINESSES WANT TO MEASURE RECOVERY POTENTIAL?

摘要

It is increasingly important to understand the significance of the ability of a company to restore data after a disaster.Reports reveal many organizations cannot fully restore data after a disaster, be them by nature or human oversight.There are hardware failures, human error, or hacking that require an action plan that can deter or vanquish thefailure of data backup success. Many businesses do not backup their data on a proper schedule nor do they use theproper procedures for storage after backing up. This paper introduces the concept of a data backup indicator thatassists management and IT specialists to understand the reliability of the restoration of a data backup for businessesthat backup data in-house. The data backup indicator is based on Six Sigma principles and is calculated based onfiles in a data backup. The data was analyzed using binary logistic regression. The results indicated there was apositive linear relationship related to the size of the company and the desire for the data backup indicator.