A Study on Data Backup and Recovery Procedure at a Cooperate Hospital

Computer users all across the world are familiar with the problem of lost data such incidents may result in lost work or the deletion of unnecessary files or even loss of important business data that has significance and cost associated with it. Information is an asset like other important business assets which is essential to an organization and consequently needs to be suitably protected especially in interconnected business environments where information is exposed to a growing number and a wider variety of intimidation and vulnerabilities. Management should provide a means to backup relevant data on a regular basis. There are key backup issues that have to be concerned by the management they are media of backup, the reliability of backup process, where the backup is stored and testing the procedure for restoring the backup at least once a year. The study was conducted at 14 tertiary care hospitals with an aim to study various hospital information systems, regular data backup and recovery practices & procedures, comprehend the hardware and network layout. Data is analyzed through Logical and Metaphorical Analysis. It was found out in the study that the backup methods that are followed at the tertiary care hospitals are incremental Backup and Full Backup with a standard hardware support.