+1 SQL backup only specially if you have large packages with thousands of file. Replication restart from 0 after each backup because smsexec stops everything. Bug.
Cesar On Jun 23, 2014 2:33 PM, "Brian Mason" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll pretend I work for Microsoft and give you their answer, "It > depends." J > > > > Now my answer. > > > > I don't backup my content library on my CAS or primary servers because it > will regenerate itself. But if speed were important I would – my SAN and > servers are fast and can recreate this quickly. If that isn't the case for > you, you should be backing it up each night as well. If you don't care > about how long it takes to copy that to a remote DP, then don't worry about > it. If that link to the remote is small or if the amount of data is > considerable, sure, make a backup at the DP (can you restore that > quickly?). > > > > MMS MOA NOV > > > > _________________ > > Brian Mason > > MCTS, MS MVP ECM > > http://www.mnscug.org/ > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ewing, Scott L > *Sent:* Monday, June 23, 2014 3:52 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [mssms] Best practices for SCCM 2012 DP backup & recovery > > > > We are running System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 CU3 > (5.0.7804.1400). We have a single primary site server and a couple of > dedicated distribution point servers in one of our data centers. We also > have dedicated distribution point servers in several other locations. In > general the same 250 GB of content is on all DPs and the servers are VMWare > virtual machines. > > > > *What is the best practice for backup and recovery of the remote DP > servers?* Should we backup the content library on each DP to a local > backup in each location? Or in the case of a remote DP failure should we > just rebuild the server and resend the content from our data center over > the WAN? Or something else? What do you do? > > > > Scott Ewing > > Unum Insurance > > Portland, Maine, USA > > > >
