The operating system must conduct backups of operating system documentation including security-related documentation per organization-defined frequency to conduct backups that is consistent with recovery time and recovery point objectives.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000101-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000101-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000101-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Operating system backup is a critical step in maintaining data assurance and availability. Information system and security related documentation contains information pertaining to system configuration and security settings. Backups shall be consistent with organizational recovery time and recovery point objectives. Permanent not a finding - This function is automated by default. To ensure persistence, auto-backup.sh and backup.sh scripts are (by default) executed via cron every 60 and 10 minutes, respectively.

Description

Operating system backup is a critical step in maintaining data assurance and availability. Information system and security related documentation contains information pertaining to system configuration and security settings. Backups shall be consistent with organizational recovery time and recovery point objectives. Permanent not a finding - This function is automated by default. To ensure persistence, auto-backup.sh and backup.sh scripts are (by default) executed via cron every 60 and 10 minutes, respectively.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000101-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-000101-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.