Why not just do incremental backups instead of full? On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:40 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> Appreciate the feedback from everyone... I was hoping someone out there is > using CPS, lol. Ah well. > > I too run full backups at the end of each week. What bugs me is, I know > that most of the data that is backed up every Friday in the full backup has > NOT changed since the previous full backup. Which means we end up having a > lot of duplicate data on our tapes... Any thoughts on an easy way to combat > this? > > For example, if on a Friday my full backup is 1TB, and of that 500GB hasn't > changed ONE BIT since last Friday, it kinda sucks that I still end up > backing up that data again and again and again each week... I was under > the assumption CPS would address that kind of thing. ? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:57 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: backup question... and Symantec CPS > > 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 Microsoft(r) Exchange technology - > http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
