Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:58:05 -0600 From: "Paul D. Schmidt" <pds@uberhacker.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is my backup system sane? Message-ID: <19991205125805.C40370@uberhacker.org>
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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
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