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Making copies of data so that the copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event, or for historical retention.

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How to backup 20+TB of data?

We have a NAS server at the company I work for that is being used for storing photography sessions. Each session is approximately 100gb. Over the last couple of years this server has accumulated 10+ TB of data, and we are increasing the amount of…
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Confidential Documentation and the role of the Sysadmin

I've got another interesting one. I'm about to backup and reinstall the HR Administrator's PC. I suspect that the fastest way to do this is to use the Windows 7 Transfer tool, and create a backup of the entire Users and Settings profiles on the…
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Cliffhanger: The backups are right... here... right?

At my work, backups have a surprisingly low priority. The backup strategy was implemented a while ago, and since then it's just assumed the backups are fine. If you ask the sysadmins, they'll say everything is backed up. But then, when you ask for…
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Long-term storage of Business Critical data

This is a really tricky one, and to some extent it's not a technical problem, and might not belong here, but Server Fault is for system administrators ... who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity And I do.. and this is…
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How do you do the offsite hard drive backups?

I have been doing hard drive backups for a while, which I believe a lot of you guys do as well, but am having trouble figuring out a better way storing them offsite. I am wondering how you guys out there do that. Any policy or tips & tricks when it…
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How do I make a backup of a live server?

At my new job, I have a production server with the following qualities: Windows Server 2003, ancient hardware Absolutely vital database No backups whatsoever Everyone in the company has full admin rights, the passwords are stored in a .txt on the…
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Backup solution for 10TB of data and 3 servers

I am looking for a backup solution for this scenario: 3 servers (One Linux mail server, 2 Windows Servers) ~ 10TB of data 2 TB of which are in daily use a few GB of activity/change per day ability to restore data from any point in time backing up…
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What backup software offerings are fit for "enterprise" use?

Coming from the FOSS area, there are few backup solutions which are fit for use in larger environments. There's an abundance of existing commercial backup software and I'm interested how they measure up when used in the field. Most offerings look…
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How do you handle data archiving?

Backups are one thing, but long term archival is another. For example, you might be required to store emails for 7 years, or keep all project data indefinitely. I used to save archives to tape, but then I've had tapes get destroyed (drives rip the…
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Full backups all of the time?

The only con I can think of when doing full backups all of the time is the speed to recovery when one needs to do a full+incremental+incremental+etc. to get a certain state back. Why might anyone want to do full backups all of the time/every day? …
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How would you backup 15TB of data to multiple drives?

I have about 15TB of data across several RAID6 arrays, and it's been growing at a rate of about 10%. I want a cheap solution to back up this data at regular intervals and bring offsite. So I purchased five 3TB drives, hoping to just back them up…
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Off-Site Backups

I need to implement off-site backups and would really appreciate any advice on this. Current Setup: 2 Racks with internal 100MB network. 15 servers each backing up approx 100GB of data each day over the network to a backup server in the rack. My…
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Online Backup Strategy

I'm looking into an online backup strategy. I can see a few helpful questions on providers. I'm looking for general pointers of things to bear in mind when making an online backup strategy.
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Common Backup filename

I was wondering when you guys have to backup a database or any directory in a server, what would be a good name to call them. For instance, database-2009-07-20.sql or directory_07_20_09.tar.gz Is there any standard for this?
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Recommended Backup Media for Circa 2009?

Tape has been the chosen form of backup media for decades, but with newer technologies, this is changing. Now other contenders are creeping up on this venerable format. What is the current sweet spot in backup media types for 2009? Is…
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