Regular Backups

Regularly backing up your files is perhaps the most important strategy. A well-designed media rotation scheme (as explained in the Supplement to the Backup Exec User Guide) plays a key role in quickly restoring your file server.

This involves a different named tape for each day of the week:

  • Use Tape A on Monday

  • Tape B on Tuesday

  • Tape C on Wednesday

  • Tape D on Thursday

  • Tape F could be used for Saturday if you run Saturday surgeries

  • Tapes E, G and H are used on successive Fridays to provide weekly backups.

  • Finally, Tapes I, J and K are monthly tapes, used on the last Friday of the month.

Keeping a log book is a practical way of recording which tape was used.

Most backups occur overnight.

Remember - Change the tape each morning to the next tape required for the next night. The tape just backed up can then be moved off site.
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