Re: How Safe are Backups?

From: Dan (dpratte_at_dpratte.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: 24 Feb 2005 04:02:35 -0800

Todd and Patrick...I can't thank you enough for this feedback. There
has been remarkably little discussion on this important topic
especially discussion which contains the hard information as you have
given. Yours is a vastly greater undertaking than mine, having 1100+
files. Would you mind commenting further?

1) One might say you have a 99+% recovery rate. In order to get closer
to 100%, are you suggesting one must rely on SQL content database
backups? Am I to understand that is why you do both types of backup?

2) I am wondering approx how large your largest stsadm file is? Average
size? ... and is there any correlation between file size and
restorability? Do you 'hold your breath' more with the big ones upon
restore?

3) The idea of restoring an stsadm file to a backup server is appealing
to me, in order to selectively retrieve content. However as I mentioned
in my initial post, this has been problematic for me. Yet your response
leads me to believe you do this. Do you have any advice regarding
backup server configuration or restore procedure?

Again, thanks a million for your insights.

DAN

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