I do FULL backups each night if I can. One server is too large so I do one full Monday night (I change my tapes on Monday morning to coincide with the work weeks) and Tues thru Sun I do Differentials, so I only need , in theory, 2 tapes, to do a full restore of that server.
This way, if a server dies on a Thursday, I just restore Monday night and Wednesday night , and ive lost, at most, 24 hours of data. That week's tapes have a retention period of 4 weeks. I also do B2D, following the same thing, except they are retained for 2 weeks since I back up the B2D to tape once a week. From: Haralson, Joe (GE Comm Fin, non-GE) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: backup question... and Symantec CPS Backup Schedule and Retention: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Week 1 Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Weekly Week 2 Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Weekly Week 3 Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Weekly Week 4 Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Monthly Full Backup Full Backup Differential Backup Daily backups will have a retention period of 2 weeks. Weekly backups will have a retention period of 4 weeks. Monthly backups will have a retention period of 52 weeks. The Monthly backup is to happen on the last Saturday of every month and will replace the Weekly backup for that week. _____ From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: backup question... and Symantec CPS Full weekly on the weekend on tapes that are rotated & once a month a full monthly run that becomes a permanent tape at our off-site storage. Incremental dailies except for the *nix stuff that I have to use Differential/Modified Time on for them to work properly (that includes the stupid mac server stuff). Exchange is a full every day. Haven't used CPS. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:56 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Out of curiosity. Are most people doing Full data backups on a daily basis, weekly basis, or monthly basis? If you're doing weekly or monthly full backups, what are you doing on days the Full backup is not scheduled to run, an incremental or differential backup? Is anyone actually using Continuous Protection Server (CPS) from Symantec/Backup Exec? If so, for what functionality? Does it work as expected? Or does it leave a lot to be desired (like most Symantec things IMHO). Just wondering what others are doing out there.. Thanks -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE - Free email based on MicrosoftR Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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