koffi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (There will be enough room in HEAVENS for all of US) (09/11/90)
I need some tips on archiving on BSD 4.3. What are the things you usually do when you are archiving. If archiving is really an ART like experts say, what can beginniners like me start with? Do I just create directories and subdirectories and just dump files in there or there are other little neat things I should know of? Koffi
braun@dri.com (Kral) (09/11/90)
In article <11737@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> koffi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (There will be enough room in HEAVENS for all of US) writes: > >I need some tips on archiving on BSD 4.3. What are the things you usually do >when you are archiving. The way I see it, there are two types of "archving" meant when people ask this question. The first is disaster recovery backups, the second is offline archiving of data you want to keep. We use a rather simple procedure for the former: daily backups go to disk of everything modified in the last 24 hours. Each day has a separate directory on a partition set aside just for daily backups. (NOTE: it would be more prudent to do 48 hour backups so there are always two copies of most files - space currently limits us from doing so). These backups are then put to tape twice a week or so, as space dictates, and the tapes are kept on site for around 6 weeks. Each weekend we do a dump. Twice a month we do fulls, one for off site storage, the other for onsite storage. The later is for major disaster recovery. The tapes are kept for two years, with January and June's being kept for 7 years. The former is for quick recovery of minor disasters (accidental deletes, disk crashes, etc). The other weekends we do weekly incrementals to the last onsite full. On site tapes are currently kept for around 6 mos, depending on the used tape pool. Weeklies are done on recycled tape, fulls are done on new tape. Special archives are simple: done with tar and disposed as the users dictates. I'm really interested in hearing comments on this and other methods. -- kral * 408/647-6112 * ...!uunet!drivax!braun * braun@dri.com What a man desires to know is *that*. But his means of knowing is *this*. How can he know *that*? Only by the perfection of *this*. - Arthur Waley, "The Way and its Power"