Keep it up? Backup?

[Graham Leggett]

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Rob Brandt wrote:

> 2) Backup.  At the moment, the server is sitting on a spare desk next to me
> and it will be no problem to go over there and put in a CDR and back it
> up.  But soon I will be transferring it to another site with a bigger pipe,
> and access will not be easy or welcome on a non-emergency basis.  What is
> my best strategy for regular backup cycles?

The backup part is actually the least important bit: It's the restore
that is important. If the machine goes down, how quickly must it be back
up and running? How much data can you practically afford to lose? A day?
More?

The backup that results in the quickest restore time is to backup to
another harddrive on an offsite machine. Hard drives have also become
one of the cheapest means of backup. I have each partition on my machine
backed up to separate directories on another machine, along with
critical information like disk partition setups and mount points. This
way if the machine gets fried, I have all the info to create a new
machine very quickly.

If you need a history of the data, backup the backup to either CDR or
tape once a week at your convenience, because if data is deleted on your
live server, it will then get deleted on your backup server too.

Regards,
Graham
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