Re: Backup v. Shadow Copy v. Both

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I appreciate your answer, but leads me to another question. Simply, what's
the downside of storing Shadow Copies on an alternate drive? I understand
the value of it (s/c)... You seem to have very strong opinions about not
putting s/c's on another drive. Does it help to know that only one volume
has any significant amount of user shared folders? Believe it or not, I'm
concerned about space constraints and am trying to postpone a server upgrade.
Just trying to understand...

Thanks again.

"Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

> Use your external USB hard drive to do an alternate backup of your server or
> of selected data files, but NOT for your shadow copy.
>
> You can read what you want about where to put shadow copy files, but given
> you ahve two partitions, you do don;t really have a lot of choice,
> nor ---IMHO - does it really matter much.
>
> Shadow Copy has been literally a saviour to me at many sites, or makes me
> look like a savior to a customer. They call up in a pnic, we just deleted
> this very important Excel spread*** file and we need it ASAP. I can RWW
> into the server, go to the drive in question and within a minute have that
> file restored.
>
> Bottom line, please don't make iut harder than it is. Using a USB drive is
> not the answer for shadow copies!
>
> --
> Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
> "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
>
>
> "RTMooney" <RTMooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:B21ADFFE-5244-400C-969E-E77A95F38753@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > We run SBS2003 SP1 and use Backup Exec for SBS to back up daily with 8
> > tape
> > rotation. Pretty good, except restore is a pain. Heard Shadow Copy was a
> > good alternative for quicker restore of client files (application data
> > that
> > someone has trashed). Read some about Shadow Copy and saw recommendations
> > against storing shadow copies on same drive being copied (for high i/o
> > drives
> > like ours). Server is partitioned into 2 drives (C: & E:) for server
> > system
> > and application files/data. This is my plan and I would appreciate any
> > comments anyone will provide:
> > 1. Continue using BE for full system backups, including Exchange mailboxes
> > and messages.
> > 2. Attach external hard drive (USB 2.0) and configure as a 3rd local disk.
> > Designate as storage location for shadow copies of drives C: & E: and with
> > a
> > large external hard drive, I could keep MANY versions. Probably only 1-2
> > shadow copies per day.
> >
> > Any comments--is this really as easy as it sounds? BTW, all clients are
> > XP
> > Pro SP2.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
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