Guest Chris White Posted February 27, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 Hi All, I was wondering whats the best way to backup your file servers. At the moment I currently have the following setup for the main file servers DFS1-Hosting Namespaces on First VLAN DFS2-Primary File Store on First VLAN DFS3-"Offsite" File Store on Second VLAN This way I use the second file server for failover should the primary file server fail. Works well. But to cut to the question... I currently back up each namespace contents (Engineering, ITDepartment, Stationary, etc.) individually and overwrite an original "full copy" backup file with incremental backups. I wish to create a backup plan where I dont keep overwriting the same backup file each night. So that should a user tell me in 3 days time that he overwrote a file or deleted a file by mistake 3 days ago, I can still recover it. I guess this would require a full copy every day. We currently have Shadow Copies enabled but only at the standard schedules of 7am and 12pm as per default. I would like to know how I could recover a file that was deleted 3 days ago. At the moment that file would be gone because I am overwriting the backup files for each department every night with incremental changes. Any help would be great. Thanks. -- Chris White United Kingdom
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