Basic notes on proposed backup and recovery plan, with no comments on continuity yet.
Separate partitions for operating system and data
Triple backup on separate HDD media for operating system
a) Daily differential backups of live system
Nightly removal off site of backup HDD
(Backup Exec or Image for Windows)
b) Monthly differential images of operating system (Image for Windows)
c) Quarterly off site duplicate of server (As a restore from image)
Triple backup on separate media for data
a) Daily differential backups of live system
Nightly removal off site of backup HDD
(Backup Exec or Image for Windows)
b) Twice daily direct file copies (DeltaCopy)
c) Daily off site duplicate of file copies on duplicate server(DeltaCopy)
Testing
a) Quarterly duplicate of server will verify both image and live system backup of OS
b) Daily email reports from DeltaCopy indicate successful data file copies
c) Monthly test recovery of data file copies
d) Monthly validation of image files