Back-up
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- BULBO
Hi
we have just got this new server and we are now looking for a back up system in case of the building falling down/being struck by a meteor .
Do you think it's alright to have a detachable drive that backs up the new/modified files that you can take off the premises.
What do you use?
- madirish0
yes.
a firewire or USB 2.0 one
- Mimio0
Maybe think about http://www.evault.com/ offsite backup.
- BULBO0
The off-site route is one of the options we are considering.
- maximillion_0
i have a buffalo drive which comes with software that immediately backsup as soon as a file is saved. This in turn is backed up to a tera station. Surprisingly there is very little hit on performance. The buffalo drive comes with me every night, plus the daily data is written to tape and taken by someone else.
The buffalo drive was only £125 for 750 GB and there were also !TB and 2 TB versions available. I would recommend it depending on the amount of data you have to back up
- we had a local drive go down last week and with this system it was backup within 24hrs.maximillion_
- mrdobolina0
tape backup may be more reliable than a dodgy external.
- BULBO0
In my last place we had tape, might be a bit expensive as we are only a tiny agency
- if your careful with the drives it should be finemaximillion_
- this my new agency and there are only designers. The owner and myselfBULBO
- multiple redundant externals should do the trick then.mrdobolina
- StratusGD0
I was minding a 10-tape drive that backed up our server a couple jobs ago. The problem with a tape drive is that it's slow, and only really useful for a total death/replacement. Finding individual files is painful, and pro-level backup software isn't the easiest thing to figure out.
What I would recommend is getting something like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and multiple external hard drives.
Set a schedule so that every weeknight at 11PM, the drive with your data is cloned to the external drive.
I'd do at least 4 drives - use two for daily backups (alternating drives each week). Take your third drive and make a backup at the end of every week. Take the fourth, and do a monthly backup.
Any drive you're not using that day/week should be held off site. And not all at the same location.
The important thing to remember is that all drives will fail eventually. They're not indestructible, especially if you're moving them around. Maybe each monthly backup should be burned to DVD when it's done?