Re: All I need to backup are the databases?

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From: Serge Ayotte (sergea_at_groupesci.com)
Date: 03/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:00:57 -0500

Quick question for you Greg;
Is BE on the same machine or you are simply using the Remote
Agent/Open file for the SPS?

Thanks!

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:05:04 -0800, Greg McAllister <Greg
McAllister@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Joseph and Rob:
>
>We have found that using the Veritas backup system has precluded us having
>to use the SPSBackup. When we first set up our portal and sites we used this
>religiously but it had a major drawback - time. While the backup was pretty
>quick - restoring was to long for our disaster recovery plan. We discovered
>two things during our hunt for rapid restoration.
>
>First Backing up the config db was not required. Microsoft has walked me
>through this twice and it was not required. The key factors are the Site,
>Serv and Prof DBs.
>
>Second - using third party backup is generally much faster in both backing
>up and restoring. What was great about using Veritas as the tool wasn't what
>we went through originally but that they planned the ability to restore
>individual documents saving the restoration of an entire site for one
>document. A key factor to using third party was the incremental backups. The
>system gets bogged down (for about 20 minutes) and should not be accessed
>during backups. With SPSBackup - almost 2 hours was required. With our
>tape/hard disk system it only took 20 minutes. Plus we do incremental backups
>between the full backups (these take about 3 - 5 minutes). We run these every
>30 minutes. This was extremely important to us because we can change a lot of
>data in a short amount of time and losing and a half hours worth could be
>frustrating and losing more than that, not to mention 24 hours worth, was
>entirely unacceptable.
>
>Thanks to our system I can now retore an entire site - and all of its
>changes within 30 minute increments - in about 40 minutes. I can also restore
>a single document from a portal, personal site, or WSS site in about 10
>minutes. Great stuff!
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Greg McAllister
>

-------------------------------------
Serge Ayotte
Systems Administrator

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