Full nightly backups to disk, with a copy job to tape. Tape sent off-site each day. If I need a restore today, I can do it from disk rather than tape. Much faster. The backup-to-disk file is overwritten each night. Using Veritas BackupExec 9.1. I tried diffs for a while, but I found that the diff size was not much smaller than the fulls. No point. I'd much rather have the full available for a recovery if needed. Substantially shortens the restore time...
********************** Charlie Kaiser MCSE, CCNA Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 510 595 5083 ********************** > > 2. What's the general practice for you guys in your > environment, do you take out your differential backups from > the library each morning and send them off site, or do you > only send off your Full Weekly backups and not worry about > the differentials. For the latter I struggle to see what you > would gain by doing that. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
