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Re: Time Machine as a Backup for the server

Thanks, we do have a strategy. Just looking for alternatives to the tape and the associated maintenance of cleaning and replacing the tape drive.  Not to mention the scanning and wait for a tape set.


Peter Beninate <email@hidden> on July 2, 2009 at 7:08 AM -0600 wrote:
You really need to develop a backup and recovery strategy for your severs. I find that in MOST cases, restoring a server OS is time consuming and unreliable. So in MOST cases, i find it more effective to restore by doing a clean OS install and restoring config files and/or licenses for services (and of course any data such as shares or mailstores). This simplifies the backup process because only config files and data need to be backed up, not a live OS. Let me emphasize again, this works in SOME but NOT ALL situations. You really need to handle each server as a separate and unique case. But putting a restore process down on paper will help you pick a backup strategy, and thus, a backup solution.


Peter Beninate
Systems Engineer
Agilex Technologies, Inc.



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