Re: SBS 2008 backup - copy of

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Hi Larry,

On 24 jan, 03:44, "Larry Struckmeyer [SBS-MVP]" <lstruckme...@mis-
wizards.com> wrote:
With SBS 2008, is there a reason why you do not make the backup directly to
an external drive in the beginning?

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/11/03/introducing-sbs-2008-...

I'm aware of this article, thanks. I read it during my preliminary
research.

Yes, there is a reason: I need to also take backups of another server,
to those same usb disks.
This other server being Linux based, the easiest is to pull the SBS
backup files over the network (SMB/CIFS), en store them on USB, next
to Linux specific backups.
I should mention that the USB disks are not NTFS.

Another reason to keep local backups like this, is that most of the
time, one needs to restore from backup to fix user problems. Off site
usb storage is for extreme disaster cases only.
The local backups are kept on a RAID1 SATA mirror with quality disks,
whilst USB disks are lower quality disks.

I also don't feel comfortable having all backups on one single USB
disk, which is carried over often, and hence has a higher risk to
break.
I know off course there is more than one usb disk, but say you switch
them once a week, you still have the most recent backups only on one
single disk.

Copying those files over to more than one disk (which happens every
night in my setup) gives a bit more comfort.


Either way, my question remains. Is it enough to simply copy the
"WindowsImageBackup" directory manually, over the network, to another
medium, and later put those files back, on a local disk, or an NTFS
formatted USB disk, so SBS can hopefully pick them up to be able to
restore from the interface? Will those backups magically be 'indexed'
by the system?

Thanks for your support,

Serge
.

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