I am in about the same situation as you backing up mostly student
data. But I think what Dan is stating is to have a comprehensive
backup plan. For me this is about a page of notes describing when I
backup, where the backup data goes, and how often you backup. Also
there should be some information on a restore plan including the down
time you expect to see. If you are just backing up student data in
case a server dies, and not in case they accidently delete a file, i
would rotate out two firewire drives. Using one for a couple of days
then switching to another to do the same backup . This way your data
is in three locations: 1. the server 2. firewire drive A 3. firewire
drive B. I use a piece of software called Synchronize X Pro that
keeps an up to date full backup of my users directories to the
currently rotated firewire drive. Since the program works like
rsync, in that it only syncs up what has changed, the backups run
very fast. Also it does have an archive feature to archive to a
folder the files that would have normally been deleted during the
sync process on the backup drive. This way you can keep a full
backup of the current data and still be able to retrieve files that
were changed up to how many days you set your archive rotation period.
Thanks
Marc
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Marc Ray
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On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Eric Paulsen wrote:
On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:
You first need a sound Backup Policy. Just throwing hw and sw at a
problem isn't a good solution unless it meets those policy
objectives.
I've seen this mentioned many times on the list. As a small K-8
school (150 total students), we do not have an official policy, as
I pretty much decide how things are going to be. I'm interested in
any other EDU institutions sharing their policies with the list.
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Eric
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