Re: NT Backup
- From: "Ian B" <ianb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:11:01 -0700
Les
like it; thanks. Who is the smartest bear in the woods?
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"Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS M" wrote:
> When you use SBSBackup, disaster recovery consists of following a tested and
> documented procedure. Your disaster recovery plan is your business
> continuity plan. For the sake of a few hundred bucks for a drive that will
> hold, say, 6-7 full backups, I'd say it's worth it.
>
> I realize that risk managment and comfort levels will vary - I'm not
> imposing anything on you - I can only give you my opinion ;-).
>
> a) 250GB (or bigger) USB drive permanently attached to the SBS. (note,
> depending on your server hardware, you might be able to install an internal
> IDE drive for this purpose for very little money). Configure SBSBackup to
> store x full backups, overwriting the oldest. In this case that would equal
> 7 - as your data grows, you'd need to reduce the number of copies so as not
> to fill the drive. This gives you reasonable protection for anything other
> than total loss of your facility, for a 7 day period.
>
> b) Once per week - or more - connect one of the 80 GB drives and copy the
> most recent .bks to it, taking it off site. This will give you some total
> loss protection - worst case scenario being you can recover the server up to
> the day of the most recent backup.
>
> Without making any purchases, and with what you have, I think your best
> protection is to configure SBSBackup witth two rotating copies on the 80 GB
> drives, switching them as you see fit. If you're not there for a week,
> backups will still be performed - overwriting the oldest copy.
>
> --
> Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> SBS Rocks !
>
>
> "Ian B" <ianb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:A8547BD3-F06A-4E2A-8825-2AC0B569B468@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Well!
> >
> > Les; thanks for the prompt.
> >
> > I am using a pair of 80Gb USB Lacie hard drives, one attached to the
> > server
> > and one off site. A full back-up is 34Gb, and an incremental one is
> > around 2
> > -3Gb. A weekly swap round routine allows me to be away from site for
> > several
> > days, otherwise the disk fills and ...
> >
> > As I read it SBS backup only allows one back-up routine.
> >
> > And, you are right, it is the recovery strategy which gives me bad nights.
> >
> > But then a proper recovery strategy would have a duplicate server on the
> > shelf waiting for a real catastrophe - fire or theft. Mine only goes as
> > far
> > as bars on the windows, RAID 1, twin CPU, repairing corrupted files from
> > the
> > back-ups, and a measured decision over server replacement when it starts
> > to
> > flag.
> >
> > Now back to back-up routines, any suggestions?
> >
> > ------
> >
> > "Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS M" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Ian,
> >>
> >> You're going to be really unhappy with yourself when you need to
> >> implement
> >> your disaster recovery plan. Is there a reason why you wouldn't use
> >> SBSBackup and do full backups daily?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------
> >> SBS Rocks !
> >>
> >>
> >> "Ian B" <ianb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:F994F588-1E56-42B4-AC46-1509C2E4C01D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >I have tried for some weeks to set the back-up routine to do a full
> >> >back-up
> >> > once per week (Friday evening) and incremental back-ups forthe rest of
> >> > the
> >> > week.
> >> >
> >> > I have 2 versions of NTbackup in the scheduled tasks folder to achieve
> >> > this
> >> > , however only the incremental version will run, the other refuses to
> >> > start.
> >> >
> >> > Pleaswe advise how I can, or if I can, get this to work
> >> > --
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
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