On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote: > For those of you using NTbackup for servers, how do you manage them?
Every night, we backup all but one of our servers to that last server, using NTBACKUP for System State and ROBOCOPY for the rest. After the server-to-server runs finish, that last server is then backed up to tape, again using NTBACKUP. So we always have "yesterday" on disk, and we can pull tape for older problems. We do a simple "grandfather/father/son" rotation. Four daily tapes, MON - THR, which get overwritten weekly. Four Friday tapes, WK2 - WK5, overwritten monthly. Eleven monthly tapes, JAN - NOV, overwritten yearly, run on the first Friday of each month. Every year at the end of December, we run a tape which becomes a permanent archive, never overwritten. This gives us staggered granularity to recover from "I just realized I need a file I overwrote last month". We're lucky enough that our overall data set is small and fits on a single tape. In the past, with a smaller tape drive, I used a similar scheme, but with two sets of tapes, one run on Mon/Wed/Fri, the other on Tue/Thr. To run the whole operation, we have a set of batch files which supervise things, filter results, and log and email us reports. By coincidence, I just posted a link to them to this list. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
