Friday Morning Question: How do you back up?
Written by Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com on June 22, 2007 – 9:28 am -
I really hope your answer to this is not Back up? What Back Up?
As an Admin on a day to day basis the one thing I say more then
“Have You Restarted Your Machine Yet?”
Is:
“When was the last time you backed up?
Ohh really that’s too bad.”
So thats your question post how, when and where to you back up. Programs, scripts, straight up xcopy - We want to know. Windows Mac Linux your Brain - POST EM’ IN THE COMMENTS!
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By The Slothman on Jun 22, 2007 | Reply
At home I have a 180GB external drive that everything gets put on.
At the office we use an LTO3 drive.
Again, smaller office/data center than most of you guys I am sure, but the LTO3 does the trick….for now.
We are also using Backup Exec. We used to be an Arcserve shop..but that app was buggy, slow and prone to fail during backup and ever restores.
By ninJaAdmin on Jun 22, 2007 | Reply
We use LTO3 Auto loader like in the picture for the office using brightstore 11.5 used to be arcserve. It is much better now admin.
At home i use the windows backup program which i think is veritas rebranded. makes one file with all in it. good indeed.
By El Di Pablo on Jun 22, 2007 | Reply
For the home user or small office admin, I recommend getting yourself a network attached storage device to place your backups, or at the very least an external hard drive.
Now that you have a place off the server/desktop computer/ laptop whatever, you can either use the built in NT backup located in Start > programs > Accessories> System Tools> backup and follow the wizard, or you can get a third party commercial product. I personally am all about free stuff, so I like the free Comodo Backup Software solution.
By -=TheAdmiN=- on Jun 22, 2007 | Reply
Enterprise wise I use LTO3 Libraries to manage our backups we also use like NinjaAdmin Brightstore 11.5. We have been with Arcserve since back in the day. We have always like CA and after you learn its quarks you can feel right at home with it.
For home users I agree with Slothman get an external drive or a second harddrive - unless you dont have huge files then you could use an image program.
Image programs take snapshots of your machine and lets you save the image to dvd or other media like a usb drive. You can then restore the image. Programs we like that do this - Acronis and Ghost.
Just remember if your backup is on the same drive as your data ITS NOT A DAMN BACKUP!!!!!
Thats like saying I wrote down all my expensive items serial numbers and I store them with the items.
Its Friday!!!!!!
TheHappyAdmin
By El Di Pablo on Jun 22, 2007 | Reply
To add to Karl’s comment about imaging programs like Acronis and Ghost, there is also a free imaging solution that comes with the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, but it can also be downloaded and installed on your computer by itself. It is called Drive Image XML. The only problem with installing it on your computer is that it will not create deployable images, for that you need The Ultimate Boot CD version.