Looking for Backup Strategy

[mikeyuf]

Currently we use STOMP backup, which is a very basic backup program. We use only portable hard drives for the storage. We run one weekly FULL backup, 5 differential and full database backups the rest of the week. In STOMP, we use backup to file to a local hard drive. We then copy the file to a portable hard drive for that days backup which is brought in from offsite.

We purchased backup exec to get a higher grade server product but we are running into problems. I am looking to keep a similiar strategy of backing up to a local hard disk, all three backups. Then copying the files to a hard drive that will be offsite.

What would be the easiest way to accomplish this?

 

[SpRick3T]

With at least version 9 of Backup Exec you can make an
online folder to backup files to.

Basically what i would do in your situation is have the
portable drive hooked up and set that as the location
to where the data will go.

Then from your Job setup in the media selection area
from the drop down it should show up as the drive you
named it.

I do this for just about every client i have running BE.
I setup a online job for each day of the week and have
the tape drive go by later in the night and get all
the nights worth of backups.

You can restore files from the online source in seconds
instead of having to catalog the tape and all that fun
stuff. Plus you can have alot more days worth available
right now instead of having the client dig thru tapes.

If you don't completly understand the steps above
lemme know and i could write up a tutorial for ya.

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