Hi Brian, Our backup strategy is basically:
- Weekly snapshots of the virtual machine - Nightly full database backups (stored on NAS) - Hourly transaction log backups (stored on NAS) The NAS is then backed up nightly and taken off site. Your strategy does sound reasonable as long as you're comfortable with your backups not being hardware agnostic. Regards, William On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Madsen, Brian <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Guys, > > > > We just had a bit of scare this week, which saw our data centre (at my > client) shut down due to a massive failure in the aircon. > > > > All servers (well, production level ones) has been migrated to another > site/location but dev boxes and environments will be left (for the time > being) in the old data centre. > > > > This has naturally brought some concern to us as we don’t just rely on the > database to be backeup but also the instances of the our TFS environment. > > > > We run a multi-server setup for our TFS and we did have the following set > up: > > > > 1) virtual image snapshot of all servers done (not incrementally > done, but one off) > > 2) databases backed up > > > > Naturally I would like to find a way to back up/restore the TFS server as > well. We do have, as mentioned, a virtual image snapshot of the server but > would like to know if there’s a better way to do this (the snapshot isn’t > hardware agnostic so we’d have to rely on same hardware – next version of > our back up software, for the virtual snapshots will be hardware agnostic). > > > > Preferably it’d be nice it we could somehow back up TFS’s configuration > files (so the configuration aspect is at least taken care of) – the install > of TFS itself isn’t a concern at this point. > > > > Any great ideas on how to back up our whole TFS environment as well for a > rapid recovery (time == $$$)? > > > > *Brian Madsen** > **Microsoft MVP Visual Developer ASP.Net** > > * > > * * > > *Senior Application Specialist > Fujitsu Australia Limited* > 410 Murray Street, Perth, WA 6000, Australia > [email protected] > > +61 08 9268 1586 > > +61 0433 814 756 > au.fujitsu.com > > > > > > > > > This is an email from Fujitsu Australia Limited, ABN 19 001 011 427. It is > confidential to the ordinary user of the email address to which it was > addressed and may contain copyright and/or legally privileged information. No > one else may read, print, store, copy or forward all or any of it or its > attachments. If you receive this email in error, please return to sender. > Thank you. > > > If you do not wish to receive commercial email messages from Fujitsu > Australia Limited, please email > [email protected] > > ------------------------------ > Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support > List address: [email protected] > Subscribe: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/oztfs > Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/oztfs Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists
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