Re: Follow-Up Backup Question

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For us, our backup strategy changed as we grew. It also depends on what you
are planning to use your backups for. Are they to recover from disaster?
Art they used to recover deleted sites or documents? Both?

For #1, Disaster Recovery, you're best to run a file system level backup of
your IIS and SQL boxes, as well as database level backups of your SQL box.
And practice restoring it at least once, it certainly won't go as easily as
it seems to in your head. :)

For #2, Site Recovery, you have some options. If your sites are small
enough, and you have the drive space, you can run STSADM and back your site
collections up individually. That gives you the flexibility of single site
collection restores, and you can restore them to your existing site under a
different name. Very handy. Unfortunately it doesn't scale very well.
STSADM backups are very slow, and take a mountain of disk space.

If you decide to do SQL backups for sites, I recommend keeping small Content
DBs. 25 GB or so. That way restores don't take very long, and it's easier
to move them to a different server if you need to.

hope that helps,
tk

"Matt Barker" <mwbarker@googlemailaddress> wrote in message
news:OAZvMlbcFHA.616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Now that I can backup my database, my next question is - how is everyone
> backing up their WSS site and the server it is on? Anyone have any
> insight into the best practices for this?
>


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