Date: 5 Dec 1999 22:12:22 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is my backup system sane? Message-ID: <82ekfm$78l$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <19991205125805.C40370@uberhacker.org>
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Paul D. Schmidt <pds@uberhacker.org> wrote: > 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... Well, it's not insane. ;-) Things to consider: Do you want to be able to restore previous system states? Like that file you deleted two weeks ago and now need again? Depending on how long an archive you want, you'll need to save an appropriate amount of old dumps (tapes). And remember that as soon as a level n dump is overwritten with a new one, all level >n dumps depending on it are invalidated. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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