I would definitely suggest collocation if you can't afford the tapes for full backups. Another suggestion if you are backing up large flat directories (i.e. Home directories), use the dirmc option to keep directory structures on disk if need be. This can really speed up a restore.
Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator 303-436-5986 -----Original Message----- From: Tim Melly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? Adam, We were only doing incrementals and we had a situation where we had to restore a Novell server. The restore had to go through two years worth of incremental tapes to complete the restore. I would strongly recommend doing periodic fulls (and colocation) unless you have a SLA which allows for extremely long restores. Regards, Tim NAFTA IS Technical Operations (203) 812-3469 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam J Boyer <adam.j.boyer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @FRB.GOV> cc: Sent by: Subject: Incremental forever -- any problems? "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU> 12/17/2001 09:31 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Hey, Our management is wondering if it's safe to just do incrementals forever, or whether we should try to do a forced full every few months to keep things fresh. Our experience has been that the incremental system works great-- we once restored a whole raid 5 array, with many files from years ago. But, nonetheless, I'd appreciate any stories or testaments to help build a case. Thanks much, adam
