Disaster Recovery Stategies

[wesmk]

Recently bought Veritas Backup Exec and was looking for a good backup strategy plan. We have a backup server connected to about 25 pcs and needed help deciding how often I should run a full back up or incremental. If there is anyone that can share there backup plans please reply.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Smorgan11]

the strategy that we use is a full backup every night starting at 11pm and letting it run through the night.

We use 4 friday tapes in a rotation.

Its not the best strategy but it works well enough

 

[RamMan04]

The best solution really depends on your backup window, the speed at which you are backing up, and how much data you are backing up. Ultimately the best would be a full backup nightly. Or you could run a full backup monthly, and a differential daily to backup anything that has changed since the last full. Have a 3 set rotation on the Full backup and a weekly rotation on the differentials