Chapter 10. Ensuring Data Integrity

Time	This lesson takes approximately 45 minutes to complete.
Goals	Learn to protect data against accidental and mechanical issues Learn to choose an appropriate backup method Learn how to automate backup solutions Learn the locations of common data stores and their backup needs

As a system administrator, it’s not enough to automate alerts so that no log entry goes unnoticed, or to analyze current system utilization and shore up the network’s defenses against unauthorized activity. You also need to attend carefully to the data that lives on each device. In Mac OS X, data integrity has been attended to as on other systems, but the OS also has unique aspects, such as metadata attached to files, that demand attention.