OFF TOPIC Windows Backup

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Justin Bennett wrote:

> It's ultra320 scsi mirrored drives. The issue I have is that it's User 
> Filesystems, Engineering drawings actually. I just want to backup the 
> drawings. But I want a dependable backup, not something that I need 
> the backup tape, and catalogs to do restore. Soemthing that if all 
> hell broke loose, I could put the tape in a tape drive and pull the 
> data off.
>
>
> ron browning wrote:
>
>> Get a RAID controller and mirror. M$ wont back up certain operating 
>> files (like the boot! to protect their copyright). Otherwise consider 
>> a second drive and back up data via a batch file
>> and "scheduler".
>>
>> */Justin Bennett <Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>     Sorry for the post but I need a little help, I know absolutely
>>     nothing
>>     about backing up a windows box. What I have is a stand alone Windows
>>     2003 Server box I need to backup nightly. I has a Vs160 tape
>>     drive, I'm
>>     trying to use this windows backup utility to schedule a nightly
>>     backup
>>     and it doesn't look like it fired last night. It had a brand new
>>     tape in
>>     it, I think it might have to do with that.
>>
>>     I don't have to use this, I'm just looking for something robust,
>>     that I
>>     can back the server up and restore it to another machine if it dies.
>>     Something kinda like tar. I can put it in another box and extract
>>     files,
>>     no cataloging, media sets, or other crap. Free is always good too.
>>
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Justin
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Justin Bennett
>>     Network Administrator
>>     Dynabrade, Inc.
>>     8989 Sheridan Dr.
>>     Clarence, NY 14031
>>
>>
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I've been following this one to see what you guys come up with as I have 
a similar situation. The scsi mirror will help with a hardware failure 
but not a software one. In my situation, I'm just thinking of using tar 
in a cron to backup some smb shares. Since the data is the critical 
thing and not the OS stuff, that'll work for me. Instead of getting all 
incremental too, I just create like folders for different days of the 
week, then do full tars to each folder respective of the day of the 
week, this way I have full backups with a week of tolerance, plenty of 
time to catch something. With the cost of hard drives today, space is 
cheap. Not the prettiest most well thought out plan but it works.

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