What are the recommendations to design a backup and recovery solution?

I hope the below recommendations will help you to design a backup and recovery solution.

1. Determine what is needed
2. Recovery Model
3. Select Backup Types
4. Backup Schedule
5. Backup Process
6. Document
7. Backup to Disk
8. Archive to Tape
9. Backup to Different Drives
10. Secure Backup Files
11. Encrypt or Password Protect Backup Files
12. Compress Backup Files
13. How Much to Keep on Disk
14. Online Backups
15. Run Restore Verifyonly
16. Offsite Storage
17. Additional information:
18. SQL Server Backup Checklist

Please comment if you have more recommendations to design a backup and recovery solution.  Jainendra Verma