Archiving Setup Question

carltont · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

Hi,

This is a newbie question concerning archiving.

I'm currently setting up a nearline/online backup-w-archive config for files from my high cost storage real estate (ISCSI SAN) to low cost (Netgear SAN). This is primarily for the "Oops I deleted/overwrote my speadsheet last Tuesday. Can I get it back?" scenario. I'm doing a Backup (Mirror Source to Target) and wanting to keep 7 iterations of changed files with their original directory structure maintained. My question is: Do I archive against the source or target and how do those options differ? Also is there a defaco or otherwise "Best Practices" for this kind of procedure that you recommend?

Thanks,
Tracy

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8759

Hello

usually you would replicate the files from source to target and archive the target so that you always have a mirror of the source files in the target , plus precious versions in the archive folders. With ViceVersa you can customize how many previous versions to keep in the archive , based on your requirements, space availabilty.

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GMAN62465 · Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Connecticut

I'm currently setting up a backup with archive config for files from my server to a network workstation with a USB External Hard Drive. I have ViseVersa installed to the network workstation with the external hard drive attached to it.

This is primarily for the "I deleted or messed up my speadsheet. Can I get a copy of it from last Tuesday?". I'm doing a Backup (Mirror Source to Target) and wanting to keep 15 days worth of daily history and will maintain some monthly ones as well. I want to keep the files with their original directory structure maintained and would like for the files to be saved in a newly created directory that will have the date so if I need to do a restore it will be apparent from which file that I need to restore from.

Possible naming format for the folders would be
"Full Daily Backup - Monday 12-14-2007"
"12-14-2007 Monday Full Daily Backup"

Can someone help with the scripting and settings that I would need to set up to properly do this.

Thanks so much in advance!

GMAN

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