On Nov 5, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Peter Jakobsson wrote: > Many thanks for the useful replies. > > I’ve contacted the IT contractor to try to negotiate a new backup strategy. > > Hopefully it will be less of a sweat than the China trade talks :-)
Peter, If you just enable 4D Backup you should be find as long as you have an idea when IT is doing the backup of your 4D Server machine. As you know, 4D Backup will make a guaranteed good copy of your live, running 4D Server data file. So when IT does a backup of the machine they will backup the 4D Backup file. Only issue is if at the exact time 4D Backup is running they run the backup the copy of the backup file may corrupted. But if you know when they are doing the backup, just schedule 4D Backup to not run near that time. I had been doing this with one of my clients for many years. They are running a VM that 4D Server runs on. IT told me they are doing a snapshot every night on that machine at 3am. So I just set 4D Backup to run at 2am. Been working great. Now that client has moved to v17 and I’ve got Volume Shadow Support running on 4D Server. So any snapshots they do will now guarantee the data file is valid if the snapshot is restored. Still running 4D Backup, but now IT thinks 4D is a real, first class VM citizen since it has VSS. Tim ***************************************** Tim Nevels Innovative Solutions 785-749-3444 [email protected] ***************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
