From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 16:37: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monterosa.urbanet.ch (monterosa.urbanet.ch [195.202.193.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0A7014DED for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:36:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch) Received: (qmail 26455 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 00:36:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?195.202.204.137?) (195.202.204.137) by monterosa.urbanet.ch with SMTP; 6 Dec 1999 00:36:56 -0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 4.01 (295) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 01:35:49 +0100 Subject: Re : Is my backup system sane? From: "Ahmed Benani" To: "Paul D. Schmidt" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <19991206003657.E0A7014DED@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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=A0: "Paul D. Schmidt" >=C0 : freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Objet=A0: Is my backup system sane? >Date=A0: Dim 5 d=E9c 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 Sun= day >(level 1) tape, then the last level 2 backup performed that week....does t= his >seem right to everyone or do I have a major error in my logic somewhere? > >Thanks, >Paul > >-- >=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D >Paul D. Schmidt >UNIX Systems Programmer FreeBSD Advoca= te > "Trust the computer industry to shorten 'Year 2000' to 'Y2K.' It was thi= s > kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place." -Anonymous >=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D > > >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