Archiving

[Ryan]

I believe I read FutureQuest backs up the servers every 24 hours...[nbsp][nbsp]What timeframe are those backups kept?[nbsp][nbsp]Until the next 24 hour backup, or maybe a week, or a month.

I would like to understand, in case information from the past is needed to recover lost information.[nbsp][nbsp]

Thank for you help in advance

Ryan

[Terra]

I am pasting in my response to an email I received a few days ago asking the very same question...

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Right now, we are on a weekly rotation of backups...

Saturday: Zero the File Tapes and run FULL Backup
Sunday -- Friday: Incremental
Friday (after Incremental): device raw dump current week off to tape for offsite storage

The backups are designed for FutureQuest disaster recovery only, and a $50.00 fee is charged if we have to do any file restoration work for site owners...[nbsp][nbsp]Due to this design, I have no reason for historical archives beyond 1 week plus 1 week held in offsite storage...

Our backups are handled by the OSCAR system which has 200Gig of storage capacity and can run full backups of all our servers in a 4 hour timeframe...
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Sidenote: as I add more storage capacity to OSCAR, my overall goal is to achieve 2 months of archival storage with an underlying 'grandfather-father-child' scheme...

Even with this backup system in place, it is absolutely crucial that you maintain your own set of local backups and only utilize our restoration services as a last resort...

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Terra
sysAdmin
FutureQuest

[elite]

Yes, it is a very good idea to hold your own backups. I think it would be a great addition to the CNC to add a feature to do this. It could work by you selecting the path you want to archive, and it would tar it up and compress it.

Then it would provide a link or instructions on downloading it. Then to allow you to zip up information and not worry about going over your disk quota, maybe it could be stored in a temp folder that will be deleted after x hours, and would not count against your storage..

And to complement this it would be cool to have a feature to restore your zip if needed :)

Anyhow I think it would just aid people in the backup process, that do not want to telnet, or are afraid..
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