Statement

West Texas A&M University will maintain an alternate storage site for storage of information resource backups that should not be subject to the same impact from a disaster as the primary University site.

Applicability

This Control applies to all West Texas A&M information resources. The intended audience for this Control includes all information resource owners, custodians, and users of information resources.

Implementation

• Mission Critical information shall be backed up on a scheduled consistant with recovery point objectives. 
• Backups shall be stored in a manner that provides both logical and physical seperated from the production enviroment.  Backups shall only be accessible by authorized individuals. 
• An alternate storage site has been established at the Harrington Academic Hall in Amarillo. This site provides appropriate geographical separation as to reduce the susceptibility to the same disruptive event.
• This site shall be equipped with the same environmental monitoring and physical controls as the University data center.
• IT site shall maintain appropriate server hardware and telecommunications connectivity to allow this site to facilitate timely and effective recovery operations.