[AccessD] Backup routines

IMNSHO, Access databases in production require at minimum a 30 day cycle 
I use zip to cd to backup the mdb and zip it off the server to my pc, 
and then have a seperate backup that backs the server mdb to tape at 
night.  Tape backups are stored by the IS dept offsite under our company 
contract of a 10yr storage, while the zip files are stored on my 80gig 
hdd for a minumum of 30 days.  When the mdb was in production we also 
moved the older zips (in 1week intervals) to CD

Bobby Heid wrote:

>I think the answer is: it depends.
>
>If this is data that cannot be recreated easily and you have no other backup
>mechanism in place, I'd say that this is not over-cautious.
>
>On my machine at home, I do weekly backups.  But I use a program called
>Replicator to replicate several key folders to another drive, just in case.
>
>Bobby
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Carlos Alberto
>Alves
>Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:00 AM
>To: AccessD List
>Subject: [AccessD] Backup routines
>
>
>Dear Members:
>I would like to have your input on this subject. I wrote a Sub to execute 
>regular BE backups. Everyday thru a month a BE copy is compacted 
>(DBEngine.CompactDatabase) and renamed and stored in a different folder. 
>Do you think that such a 30-day backup routine is overzealous??? Thanks for
>your opinion,
>  
>


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-Francisco