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Backup Strategy

  • Simulate a random disk crash -- just turn off the power
    • Nothing should break -- people can keep working
    • Nothing should break -- email and web still works

  • Rotate your Backups
    • daily incremental on Backup-Daily
    • weekly 30 day incremental on Backup-Weekly ( different server )
    • weekly Full backups ( different server than dail or weekly-30 )

  • do NOT erase last weeks backup
    • keep multiple backups on different servers
    • keep the 32 or 94 day incrementals if you decide to erase *.Full.tgz

  • Test your Backups from Bare Metal Restores
    • always start from virgin disk when testing backups
    • always just apply the patches ... NO manual changes


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