Server Backup
Backing up your server is an essential task to be performed on a regular basis. By backing up your server data helps you to prevent data loss. It should be your regular job to backup your server, just like brushing your teeth. Backup can be done using two different methods, using automated software’s and the another way is to backup manually.
The server data may includes other users data. There are multiple users who store, retrieve and update data on the server. Users would completely rely on you to keep their sensitive information safe and secured. Although, if you have informed them to backup their own data, you should also backup the server data, just in case if they forget to backup.
To ensure that all files on the server are backed up to another storage medium (tape, removable hard disk, NAS device, etc.). Most companies would choose to use tape. Tape may be a dinosaur in the age of optical disks, removable hard drives and a plethora of whiz-bang, random-access storage media, but it's ideal for backup. Cheap and high-capacity, there aren't many storage media around that provide as much gigabytes per buck. You'll need your storage medium to have the capacity to store all the files you need backed up, and tape should be sufficient for the company's server.
When BACKUP ?
Typically, server backup is performed at the end of each day. Just put in the tape and let the backup process run overnight. If your server ever suffers a catastrophic disaster, you have at least saved all your files from the previous day. Typically, file backup is performed at the end of each day. Just put in the tape and let the backup run overnight. If your server ever suffers a catastrophic disaster, files from the previous day can be safely restored.
Tape Rotation
The ideal tape backup solution would involve using a new tape for each backup. This means purchasing a new tape for every day of the business's operations. This is hardly cost-effective for the business.This is why we speak of "tape rotation". Tape rotation means to reuse tapes from previous backups. The simplest tape rotation scheme is to have one tape for each day of the working week. Tapes are labelled: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.You can restore data from any one of the tapes in your library - or in this case, any day in the past the week. This strategy requires only five tapes, but only provides one week's data backup history.
Swapping backup tapes
Every morning the backup tape would be sent to the EGM by the company's dispatch service. And we would receive EGM's backup tape which would be returned the next day. This is to ensure the data is safe from any disaster.
The server data may includes other users data. There are multiple users who store, retrieve and update data on the server. Users would completely rely on you to keep their sensitive information safe and secured. Although, if you have informed them to backup their own data, you should also backup the server data, just in case if they forget to backup.
To ensure that all files on the server are backed up to another storage medium (tape, removable hard disk, NAS device, etc.). Most companies would choose to use tape. Tape may be a dinosaur in the age of optical disks, removable hard drives and a plethora of whiz-bang, random-access storage media, but it's ideal for backup. Cheap and high-capacity, there aren't many storage media around that provide as much gigabytes per buck. You'll need your storage medium to have the capacity to store all the files you need backed up, and tape should be sufficient for the company's server.
When BACKUP ?
Typically, server backup is performed at the end of each day. Just put in the tape and let the backup process run overnight. If your server ever suffers a catastrophic disaster, you have at least saved all your files from the previous day. Typically, file backup is performed at the end of each day. Just put in the tape and let the backup run overnight. If your server ever suffers a catastrophic disaster, files from the previous day can be safely restored.
Tape Rotation
The ideal tape backup solution would involve using a new tape for each backup. This means purchasing a new tape for every day of the business's operations. This is hardly cost-effective for the business.This is why we speak of "tape rotation". Tape rotation means to reuse tapes from previous backups. The simplest tape rotation scheme is to have one tape for each day of the working week. Tapes are labelled: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.You can restore data from any one of the tapes in your library - or in this case, any day in the past the week. This strategy requires only five tapes, but only provides one week's data backup history.
Swapping backup tapes
Every morning the backup tape would be sent to the EGM by the company's dispatch service. And we would receive EGM's backup tape which would be returned the next day. This is to ensure the data is safe from any disaster.