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Correct way to backup with 3-4 days back history.


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Guest Chris White
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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.

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Chris White

United Kingdom

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