Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 07:53:42 CST 2009
I am not involved with backing up any of our servers here at work so that is why I didn't respond earlier. I back up my individual work at work in several ways, I copy to my second system, I copy to external usb hard drives, I copy to several network drives, I copy to CD and or DVDs. Now do I do this often enough? Probably not. I do have a mirrored drive in my main system at work too. I hate it as it's slower than molasses compared to the 10,000 RPM SCSI drive I had in my previous system - until it died. At home I use a WINDOWS HOME SERVER system to back up every system every night. Plus I do a backup to external USB drive of my most important files on my main system automatically once a week I think it is. I love the Windows Home Server system. Unfortunately IT has no backup, but as long as I don't lose both that server and any of my client systems I guess I'm OK. On 2/9/09, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Group, > > I'm delving into this again because a client of mine just went through > a nasty crash without a good backup. Windows 2003 Server with only a > RAID 0 -- yes, you read that correctly -- array. They lost 3 months > worth of data. > > How do you back up your server(s)? Our network admin is partial to > VMWare, so backing up virtual hard disks is a bit simpler. For actual > backup of systems he advocates using Casper to make a bootable backup. > He uses an E-SATA holster thingie into which he plugs a hard disk and > lets 'er rip. Once a full backup has been performed on a backup > drive, Casper automagically does an incremental backup on subsequent > backups to that same drive. Cuts down the time quite a lot. > > How about you folks? > > Regards, > > Steve Erbach > Neenah, WI > http://www.NeenahPolitics.com > http://www.TheTownCrank.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com