Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 01:35:49 +0100 From: "Ahmed Benani" <ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch> To: "Paul D. Schmidt" <pds@uberhacker.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re : Is my backup system sane? Message-ID: <19991206003657.E0A7014DED@hub.freebsd.org>
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STOP SENDING YOUR MESSAGES I RECEIVED MORE THAN 200 PER DAY AND I NEVER UBSCRIBE TO YOUR LIST: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch ---------- >De : "Paul D. Schmidt" <pds@uberhacker.org> >À : freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Objet : Is my backup system sane? >Date : Dim 5 déc 1999 19:58 > >I do a level 0 dump at the end of the month > >I then cycle through 4 (or 5 if necessary) "Sunday" tapes doing level 1 >backups > >Then Monday-Saturday I do a level 2 backup to the proper tape for the day... > >I've done a little reading on backup strategies, and it seems that most >people cycle their friday tapes as opposed to sunday tapes... This seems to >work better for a business environment, but sunday works better for me >time-wise... > >The theory behind my backup is that if I needed to fully recover from tape, >I would restore the last monthly (level 0) backup first, then the last Sunday >(level 1) tape, then the last level 2 backup performed that week....does this >seem right to everyone or do I have a major error in my logic somewhere? > >Thanks, >Paul > >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Paul D. Schmidt <pds@uberhacker.org> >UNIX Systems Programmer FreeBSD Advocate > "Trust the computer industry to shorten 'Year 2000' to 'Y2K.' It was this > kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place." -Anonymous >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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