Topic: Backup strategy curiousity

[arthurhanlon]

Hi all,

I'm just curious as to how people go about setting up their own backups on their home servers. I realise that any kind of strategy is down to personal preference and how important the data being backed up is but was just wondering.

I personally have Darrell May's backup2ws contrib installed and have three main backups set up :

911 backup : Excluding user homes and iBays
iBay backup to backup all ibays
user homes backup to backup things like mail etc.

I run the 911 backup once every two weeks and the other two more frequently, iBays whenever there has been a change to any of the files within any iBays and the user homes once at night.

Like I said before, just curious how other people are organising their backups. I might pick up some pointers.

Thanks,

Arthur

[raem]

arthurhanlon

> I run the 911 backup once every two weeks and the other two more frequently...

Watch out, you may get badly stung one day. Only the 911 job backs up the mysql databases.
You really need to run that EVERY day.

[arthurhanlon]

See, this is why I ask opinions. Hefty backup to run every day though Suppose with the removal of the ibays and the user homes it makes it way smaller.

Cheers for the feedback.

Arthur

[henry44]

I use the winXP Pro back-up application (I think it is a version of veritas) to back up all the necessary data from several workstations to a mirrored 200gb array. I also back up the contents of the i-bays at the same time. I find it just as fast to do a complete back up with replacement as to do an incremental or differential. It makes restoring much easier as well. I use the sme back up to tape to back up the settings and configuration of the sme box to tape once a week with a change of tape following the event.

This is on a simple network of 11 workstations, a dedicated file storage unit, a dedicated back-up unit, and the sme unit. On commercial networks, the back-up routine is different, depending on the data needing to be archived and the resources of the network.