Ah - so Thursdays are fulls, and the other days are incrementals or differentials?
That's a decent amount of data. Removable disk might, or might not, make sense for you. Costing will be interesting. Do you archive data for longer than a month - this might be necessary for financial data, or email retention, depending on the regulations under which your company operates. Kurt On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:22, Doug Rooney <d...@sonomatilemakers.com> wrote: > The Th-1 thru 4 are Thursday 1 thru Thursday 4, so we rotate daily, and > Thursdays are rotated weekly, so we can in theory go back a month to recover > something. > > > Thank You > ~Doug Rooney > Sonoma Tilemakers > IT Manager > 7750 Bell Rd. > Windsor Ca, 95492 > i...@sonomatilemakers.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 12:18 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: System Back-up solution. > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:10, Doug Rooney <d...@sonomatilemakers.com> wrote: >> Please see answers below. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> How much data are you backing up? - Average of 410 GB >> >> What does your backup rotation look like? - Mon, Tue, Wed, Th-1, Th-2, Th-3, >> Th-4 Fri >> >> How long are your backup times? - Not sure, they run at night. >> >> Do you rotate your media to secure offsite storage? - We have the 500GB >> array in a different building from the servers and the other 2 arrays. > > My reply was more aimed at Mr. Songstad, but those are useful stats. > However, I'm not sure what the Th-1|Th-2|Th-3|Th-4 mean. > > It's always good to know how long your backups take - monitoring that > can help a lot, if you can easily note if they are taking a lot less > or more time than usual. > > Kurt > >
