Yes, I have all those in the shares. If our datacenter blows up, we have 2 ways of restoring SCCM. We could to a bit for bit restore with the system state. This puts everything back exactly how it was (it's a VM in Hyper-V). If you have a physical box, restoring bit for bit could cause issues if you restore to different hardware. The other way would be to build up a new server and then use SCCM's restored database and drop the shared folders with all the files (packages, drivers, images,...) back down on the new server. We don't test any backups, so I'm not 100% these methods would work. My butt isn't on the line if the data isn't recoverable in a disaster, so I don't worry too much about it.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:00 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [mssms] RE: Preferred method of backup Does that include your source files? We've got over 100GB in our source files, then there's the image stuff on top of that. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Aubrey Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 6:16 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: Preferred method of backup We just backup the server with DPM, we don't use the maintenance task. DPM backs up the whole server, shares, and SQL database every night. Our system admin is a little backup happy. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:06 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] Preferred method of backup At the moment: SCCM 2012 SP1 SQL 2008 R2 Is it preferred to use the Maintenance Task for the site to backup, or just a SQL backup of the site database itself, or both? Thanks, Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support Information Technology Operations Branch Data and Technology Division CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1700 9th Street, 3rd Floor Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284
