Plan database backups around other activities like indexing, and ensure that maintenance windows work around the backup schedule. Set up multiple schedules based on the business schedule. Businesses with large databases, or whose operations run around the clock, may not be able to complete a full backup given an entire weekend. ![]() Create a spreadsheet or a table and review it with the business stakeholders and data owners to ensure that everyone agrees with what is being backed up and in what order it should be restored.īackups take time, consume bandwidth and may have problems with open files. Rank it by priority so that if you need to restore, you would know what to restore first. Focus instead on the critical data that cannot be recreated and that the business cannot do without. If you want to back up everything then you are going to need plenty of tapes, or perhaps a disk backup system, and much more time than you’re likely to afford. This article should help guide you on how it’s done, regardless of what software or hardware solution you use. There are several aspects you should incorporate into your backup plan. A well thought out backup plan can help ensure that all eventualities are covered and that your company can continue operating no matter what kind of disaster may occur. I’ve only had this installed a few days, but things are looking good so far.One of the most important tasks for a systems admin is that of backing up data to protect against loss. Here you can see if the jobs failed or succeeded. From the home screen click on “My Tasks” and then in the top bar there is a button that says “View Log”, which will give you this dialog box. ![]() To check on your backups its pretty easy to. ![]() this is because the first night the backup failed, which looked like it was due to a VSS error. I scheduled the job at midnight, and it was done uploading the second night be 4am, so not too bad. So right now there is only about 550MB that I’m backing up, but I figured I might have some problems over their 256Kbps upload rate. Right now mom has a minimal amount of pictures on her computer because she is afraid of losing them and has always just bought new SD cards when the last is full. We also have the ability to email us when there are problems, but I left this stuff all at the defaults since it’s just a home backup. (this is a screenshot off their website as it looks like I forgot to take one of this screen □ Then the only thing left is to setup the backup schedule and we are good to go. Perfect for a backup that is going offsite to an FTP server. Here we get to pick if we want archive encryption, and zip compression levels. Next we have the ability to set some options. Here we have several options which include everything from a USB stick to an FTP server. Then we select the destination for the backup archive. Second we select the files we need to backup. The first is to name your backup, the archive that it will create and some other basic information. That will start a backup wizard which has about 5 steps: ![]() Setting up a job is done very easily:įrom the home screen all I needed to do was click “Backup”. After installation it has a very nice and easy to use interface. I wont bore you with the generic program installation details, I will just say it’s very easy to install. The off-site location I had chosen was a linux FTP server VM that is installed on the same cluster as the VM that hosts my blog. One of my co-workers mentioned it after I said I was looking for a cheap backup software that could push to an FTP server.īasically my goal was to backup all of mom’s pictures securely to an off-site location along with other important docs and emails. I’m talking about GFI Backup: Home Edition. I started using a new product this week at my parents house for backup, and I have to say its pretty cool.
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