Backup and restore strategy

[sibusisom]

I am very curios in knowing what backup and restore strategy do you use in terms of Normal, Diff and incremental backup. I like to use normal back sothat when i do the restore i just gooi the normal backup and poof everything is there as it was. I know it does depend on the amount of data that one backsup.

I am referring more on the point that how much time will your organization survive a disaster or how much time do you consider reasonable for disaster recovery or how much time does your boss :twisted: consider reasonable.

Also how often do you do your system state backups.

 

[Hemps]

Acronis Echo Enterprise - create a full image of each day of the week to an external esata 1tb which gets rotated every day, one goes off site and is rotated the next morning.
A batch file creates a zip backup on the 1st of each month and names it according to the date and time it was created and stores it into it's own monthly folder and year , from the 2nd onwards we only back up changes that have have been made - these backups are stored on an internal 1TB and then copied over to our Freenas NAS server where the drives are mirrored. ie. 2x 2TB = 2TB of space mirrored.

Data and System (OS) drives get cloned every month with other drive going into our strong room. (fire proof)
system state gets created each month in it's own folder i.e 1,2,3,4,5.... for each month of the year so you have a full year of system state backups.
Data is in removable sata trays so in the event of a system failure we unplug the drive and insert it into our backup server and poeple login as usual = last time I tested downtime was 15min.
Bascially 2x identical servers = 1 running at one time with the other waiting unpowered for the data drive to be plugged in and it will then boot up - exact clone of the main server.


cant have too many backups

 

[fixx]

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