Re: Re: [OT] Backups

["Ho Yin Ng" <architect.hoyin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow everyones system sounds so complicated? Or is it just me?

Surely you want the easiest method that requires the least input by the
user?

You all know what happens in an office environment - no one can be arsed to
do anything.

I use 2 x firewire drives and do weekly backups of the entire server.

Then we use tapes for a daily incremental which are taken home every night
-
though now I have started setting it up so that it does a daily incremental
backup to a secure online server.

Then in Windows Server 2003 we have the auto recover system setup so that
users can right click on any files or folders and beable to restore files
immediately should they make a mistake. This aleviates the need to have
yesterdays backup in the office should someone forget to bring the tape in.

So apart from the tapes (which we are phasing out) the only user
interaction
is a weekly backup which my office manager or I take home evrey week for
safe keeping.

It is cheap and seems to work well.

Ho yin

On 03/06/07, liakakos <ukha@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   I've gone down the NAS route too for my backups, but I also backup
the
> NAS to USB disk once in a while (not often enough), just in case.
> Although all my computer gear is on UPSes or surge protectors, I'm a
> bit paranoid. I've even contemplated a solar powered wireless NAS box
> in the shed for 'offsite' backups!
>
> For a company, I would definitely recommend that in addition to
> backing up to NAS, they should have some offsite ability too. You
> could either pay for a proper backup solution, backup to the MD's
> house over a VPN, or maybe cheap webspace could be used.
>
> I also wouldn't necessarily bother with RAID 1 or 5 for a backup
> device, unless you restore quite a bit as it's only there for
> emergencies, so you shouldn't need the extra data redundancy. If
> you're using it as an archive device, that's a different matter, but
> then I'd consider DVD (multiple copies, media from different
> manufacturers, ideally different drives, and at the slowest speed the
> drive copes with). If you've got offsite backup too, RAID 1 or 5 is a
> total waste IMHO.
>
>
>


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