Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 10:49:55 CST 2009
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