It doesn??™t matter how your organization works??”whether each department has a
separate budget for systems implementation, IT is given the complete budget for technology
projects, or the entire company works on an internal economy. Each business
unit has its own unique set of constraints that need to be met.
These four basic questions drive the constraints of a business unit:
??? How much downtime is allowed for backup processes?
??? How quickly must the system be restored?
??? How much data loss is acceptable?
??? How much will it cost?
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nNote Get ready for the following answers to these questions: none, right away, none, and nothing. Have
practical, nonconfrontational responses in your back pocket before you even start asking questions. Out of
the hundreds of interviews I??™ve conducted on this topic, only three business managers responded with different
answers. Needless to say, I was speechless in each case.
The answers to these questions, while not quite mutually exclusive, almost always
impact each other. A low amount of data loss might mean a slower restore time, whereas
a fast restore time might increase the amount of processing time needed for backups.
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