On Jul 2, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Bryan Dulock wrote: On Jul 1, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Brian F. Opitz wrote: elusiv3 wrote: I have been using Time Machine as a backup on a few servers for about 6 months with no issues. It's very handy for restoring files to user homes. If a user deletes a file that was there an hour ago I can very easily get it back. Depending on your backup up needs and the services that your server is running I think Time Machine is a very good reliable option.
On 02/07/2009, at 12:30 AM, Steve Meredith wrote: I'm new to the list, please forgive me if this has been asked and answered! Our HP Tape backup failed, it can no longer read-write to tape. I was thinking a faster method would be to use TimeMachine as a server grade backup. Wondering about the reliability, rotation of media (two separate drives) etc. Thoughts Please. This has been discussed so many times before on this list that we don't need to hear it anymore. Time Machine is designed for the home user. Period. To use it in a mission-critical, production, environment is simply lunacy. Would you risk your paycheck on it? I know I wouldn't. As far as the server goes, Time Machine would not be suitable for the Mail service. A proper back up of the Mail service would require that service to be turned off during the backup.
For user data and other services, Time Machine is okay.
Quite possibly not so.
As Simon pointed out, for any Advanced setup, not. There's the db associated with Open Directory, various sqlite dbs connected to other services, and potentially MySQL dbs, that should not be externally "backed up" while in use. |
