EMS Backup Policy

Modified on Mon, 12 Apr, 2021 at 3:51 PM

Contents

    What We Back Up

    What is Our Retention Policy?

    Disaster Recovery Policy


What We Back Up

EMS Servers

    •    We back up the entire tenant VMs, including the folders below:

        o    EMS manager configurations, located in the F:\ADI directory.

        o    Distributed Processing data folder, located in the F:\DPStorage directory.

        o    Revolving Data folder, located in the I:\revolving directory.

        o    User Directories/Profile Folders, located in the G:\Profiles directory.

        o    SFTP user data (home folders), located in I:\revolvingdata directory.

    •    We back up additional GE related drives of user data, disk images and infrastructure management data.

    •    We back up the entire Domain VMs, for Active Directory, GPOs & DNS records.


SQL Servers

    •    We back up all SQL databases attached to EMS systems, EMS Online, EMS API, and Tableau Data Sources.


What is Our Retention Policy?

EMS Servers 

    •    BACKUP FREQUENCY

        o    Daily back up of previously mentioned locations

    •    RETENTION RANGE

        o    Retain every backup taken for 15 Days

SQL Servers

    •    BACKUP FREQUENCY

        o    Full backup weekly on Saturday

        o    Differential backup daily (except Saturday)

    •    RETENTION RANGE

        o    Retain every full backup taken for 4 weeks

        o    Retain every differential backup taken for 15 days


Disaster Recovery Policy

We use region pairs to replicate data in case of a serious disaster. 

    •    Regional Pairs are listed in Azure Regional Pairs documentation.

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