Do's and Dont's

Don't do that.
Run 2 dedicated lines. If you run a single line then the Voip phone is in line and then your gigabit network is limited to 10/100.

Also the Voip line acts as a backup data line should something break (and things do break).

Not true at all.
VOIP Deskphones come with GB NIC's now...
 
Ran a similar project not too long ago...
Multi storey building - 4 Floors
Dedicated a switch per floor with a single Cat6 per point running both Data and VOIP.

Had a company to do the implementation.
Went with the Grandstream PBX VOIP solution
Used SEACOM as ISP - a lot of other companies tried selling others but contention ratio was my concern and SEACOM was the only who could assure a dedicated line.

All went well and still working great 8 months later...
 
Voice VLAN + Data VLAN single cable. No need for 2 cables per desktop.

EDIT:
Just replied without reading comments fully.
It appears some users are living in the 2000's still.

You definitely do not need 2 cables.
Have voice and DATA on the same port.
Shielded CAT6 cable if you are running over electrical wires.
Always run two cables.
 
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