I, too, retain multiple generations (father, grandfather, etc) of my backups. When appropriate, I use a RENAME rather than XCOPY. Hugely faster!
Bill Cook Kent WA USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 10:36 AM Subject: Re: R:Tango / Windows2000 > Depending on how big the DB is, you could even do better than that. Not > only do we do tape backups, but I have 3 machines on the network doing an > xcopy batch file that copies the 6th night back to the 7th directory, then > the 5th night back to the 6th directory, and so on. I keep the last 7 days, > and the last 10 month end backups just with the failsafe xcopy command. > Never have to resort to tape to restore, though I do the tape backup each > day and keep the tapes off site. > > > > At 12:28 PM 12/26/01 -0500, you wrote: > >No, it's no substitute. Everyone hears the mantra, BackUp, BackUp, BackUp. > >But you still will go to your customer and before doing something you > >inquire when the last backup was done and you are shocked that they will > >often reply with something like "last wednesday" (it's Tuesday next, Right?) > > Since storage is so cheap, if you still find yourself unable to drag > >yourself to the server to change tapes, you could use a method I used > >sucessfully for years that provided at least one days protection. I just > >kept another harddrive spinning (100gb + Ide drives now for $300 or so) and > >used the Xcopy command run from a scheduler and set the command line > >switches for Xcopy to copy only changed files. Quick and effective one day > >protection. > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Nicky Avery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 11:41 AM > >Subject: Re: R:Tango / Windows2000 > > > > > >> Perhaps it's unnecessary to mention this but RAID is a solution to > >> hardware failure only (and RAID 0 isn't even that). If data becomes > >> corrupted, one ends up with multiple good copies of bad data; RAID is > >> not a substitute for backup. > >> > >> Nicky > >> > >> ================================================ > >> TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > >> Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > >> ================================================ > >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > >> > > > > > >================================================ > >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > >================================================ > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > Dan Champion > Information Services > Vredevoogd Heating > 3047 Sangra SW > Grandville, MI 49504 > (616) 534-8271 x10 > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l
