Hi,

I have been asked for insurance reasons to rotate the off site backup
devices.

The way I thought this could work is that we have 2 backup devices:

Backup 1 and Backup 2

I would like to run two inceremental backup jobs that backup to device
Backup 1, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Then backup to Backup 2 on Tuesday and Thursday.

However, using LiveState you cannot create two incremental jobs on one
server, backing up to different backup devices.

There are several things that bother me regarding this operation.  If I
lose the device that has backed up on the Friday, then I have lost an
entire days backup on the offsite media.

Would it be better to backup to one of the devices on the network than
copy the files to the other device, then get the devices taken off site
seperately

Any ideas for this conundrum?

Cheers

Dom

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Look at Relative Rev Backup - you can set up two backup jobs backing up
into two different backup disks. Rotate the disks daily, and you can
store backup versions that go months back (it simply keeps the latest
predetermined number of daily weekly and monthly backup versions).

Any backup disk is completely self-sufficient, so loosing one disk does
not affect the other. Actually I think it is better to have three disk
rotated - one can be on site, the other in a safe location while the
third is in transit. All backup jobs are incremental forever, so it is
fast and economic.


Joe Rom King
http://www.datamills.com



The Sheriff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been asked for insurance reasons to rotate the off site backup
> devices.
>
> The way I thought this could work is that we have 2 backup devices:
>
> Backup 1 and Backup 2
>
> I would like to run two inceremental backup jobs that backup to device
> Backup 1, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
>
> Then backup to Backup 2 on Tuesday and Thursday.
>
> However, using LiveState you cannot create two incremental jobs on one
> server, backing up to different backup devices.
>
> There are several things that bother me regarding this operation.  If I
> lose the device that has backed up on the Friday, then I have lost an
> entire days backup on the offsite media.
>
> Would it be better to backup to one of the devices on the network than
> copy the files to the other device, then get the devices taken off site
> seperately
>
> Any ideas for this conundrum?
>
> Cheers
>
> Dom

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