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sr_erick
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 Posted - 13 October 2004 : 19:58:53
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Hello,
As some of you may or may not know, i've got my server co-hosted at my company. I haven't set up backups yet, and maybe I can just use the company backup system, but I wanted to know what you guys thought is the best way to do this. What I'd like to do is create backups and then set up a simple batch file to ftp those backups to an off site server. What's the best way to do this, making it relatively easy to restore files and keep the backup packages a reasonable size? I was thinking like a full backup once a week or something and then incremental after that in a different package. What's the best way really? I'd be using the windows backup utility and perhaps even winRARing that packages if it makes them smaller to FTP unless there is a better backup utility out there you suggest.
Thanks!
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Erick
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Podge
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 14 October 2004 : 08:40:53
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| What OS is the server? I've found NTBackup using Shadow Copy very good under Server 2003 for taking complete or patial backups of the machine, I dump them initially on a secondary drive in the machine and then periodically take copys of the full system backup off site. |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 14 October 2004 : 14:58:47
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| It's Windows 2003. I talked to another guy at work though and i'm just going to use the backup system there. We use a utility called rdiff. It's more a linuxy thing, requires Cygwin to work. It makes reverse differentials, pushes that to our backup server and it is written to tape there. Then my stuff will be backed up nightly, have hot swapable 2 week backup on the tape server as well as two weeks on tapes, monthly backups and we keep yearly backups like 4 years so it should be safe. |
Erick
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Gremlin
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New Zealand
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Posted - 14 October 2004 : 23:19:50
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| hmm does rdiff support files in-use on windows? I had a funny feeling it didn't, so you may not get complete backups. |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 15 October 2004 : 02:02:13
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| Either it does or something else makes it because we've been running it on our other windows servers for a year now. I've needed files back and it all seems to work. I dunno. |
Erick
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Gremlin
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Posted - 15 October 2004 : 19:05:07
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| What about the Registry and things like that? quickest way to check if it does files in use is see if the registry is in the backup file. |
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