From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 10:58: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uberhacker.org (uberhacker.org [207.229.158.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27B1714DD5 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:58:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pds@uberhacker.org) Received: (qmail 42003 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Dec 1999 18:58:05 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:58:05 -0600 From: "Paul D. Schmidt" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is my backup system sane? Message-ID: <19991205125805.C40370@uberhacker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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