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I've done a quick search, but can't find any examples of a primary school data protection policy on here. Does anyone have a good sample policy they would be willing to share? Our office manager has asked me to look at this. I've found the Becta guidance docs on National Archives, but nothing else (short of going to as many school websites as I can think of....).

We are planning to replace our current backup system(s) with something more suitable. At the moment we use a combination of BExec 9 (dates back to 2003), Windows 2003 backup, Windows 2008 backup, robocopy and a script. For media we use 1TB and 320GB USB HDDs. Most of our backups are differentials (full at weekend) and we have 5 Friday drives. Backup USB HDDs are transferred each day to a fire proof safe located at a different site. But can sometimes cause problems, especially during holiday periods. We have 4 sites and the connections between these sites have recently been upgraded to 100Mbit (from 2Mbit). The opens the potential for backing up over these links to NAS. But I my knowledge of backing up to NAS is very limited. I have looked at a QNAP unit which has 6 SATA bays (up to 6TB). One option is to use two of these, where 3 sites backup to a NAS at the 4th site, and the 4th site (where most of the data is located) backup up to a second NAS at one of the other 3 sites. My main concerns are: Whether we have sufficient bandwidth to backup the data over the links. The whole concept of backing up to online storage. Potential for hacker to delete the backups (although we could do regular transfers to USB HDDs for archive). How is this viewed or addressed? What is accepted practice. The most appropriate backup software (looking at Microsoft DPM 2010), but feedback I have seen suggests it is far from perfect and can be difficult to setup. I would prefere BExec 12, but we have 34 servers (although around 7 are due to be decommisioned soon), but that still leaves 27, and at £300 agent lisence per year, it would be very costly. Any advice from anyone in the educational sector (or otherwise), would be much appreciated. Many Thanks, Bruce. Leeds, UK.