File server - right now around 150 Gb but probably will be around 250 Gb.
SQL Server - around 32 Gb
Exchange - around 70 Gb
Virtual - Around 100-150 Gb
Miguel
Roger Wright escribió:
How much data are you looking at in your backups?
Roger Wright
Network Administrator
Evatone, Inc.
727.572.7076 x388
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-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel Gonzalez Castaños [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 5:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ntbackup schemes
Hi,
I've googled a little bit and I'm having a hard time to figure out which is
the best scheme for our needs.
First the info:
- We want to have weekly backups of 4 our servers:
- Exchange SBS 2003. For the time being, I just need to backup the
Storage databases, not the full system, so I'm actually able to recover
individual mailboxes.
- SQL Server 2005 and 2000 server. Just the database information.
- File share server.
- Virtual server, currently running Virtual Server and VMware Server, but
probably will run Vmware Server only.
Our idea is to create a full backup on Monday and create differential backups
in an external USB drive. Right now We won't make any rotate of USB drives, but
the idea is to take the drive on monday (before the full
backup) and rotate it offline.
Full backups one day a week and then perform incremental backups (or
differential backups - I've just seen a difference if you are backing up
Exchange - I guess is the same with SQL Server - differential backups don't
delete log files). However, my big concern is that if any of the incremental
backups goes wrong, you lose up to the only backup that was good.
I was thinking of creating an incremental backup for each day in respect to
the full backup (not the previous incremental or differential
backup) so I can get individual differential backups.
Questions:
- Is it possible to access within the differential backup the files that
were created or modified that day without needing to restore the full backup?
- What is the best scheme that I should use for each of the servers
(differential, incremental). Is good my approach of creating an incremental (or
differential) backup from the full backup of monday?
Thanks
Miguel
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