Re: Backup Question
- From: "Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" <crisnospamhanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:05:00 -0500
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"Richard K" <RichardK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Background: I have a client who is using the SBS backup and the way the
old
consultant configured the server he partitioned the entire drive as one
big
C: drive and the backup backs up everything on the drive. Backups are
written to an external USB HD.
OK I can live with that but they put everything including the proverbial
"kitchen sink" on that drive and their backups work out to be over 300gb
of
data every night taking over 12 hours to complete. Since their drive set
up
is a Raid 1 mirror I am not too concerned about a drive going down and I
want
to "slim down" what actually gets backed up during the week because it
overlaps with their work hours and the server is going hard-disk crazy
most
of the time killing everything else including Exchange.
I have been using BackupAssist quite successfully at other clients and I
restrict backups to user data, SQL databases (which are first backed up to
.bak files via SQL Administrator) and system state. What are other
suggestions of what to backup (if any) and just suggestions in general on
how
you would handle this client?
Thanks!
-Richard K
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