backup problems!

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:38 pm

The backup just won't work!

Been tweaking backup scripts and I think some data is going all over that drive. And it's not set to delete old files so that does not help. I need to figure a way to make it delete files older then NN days or something.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:43 pm

Wow, only you could fill up 275 gb like that red. BTW nice directory name

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:11 am

The only decent backup is Acronis.

Even Microsoft Synctoy which I've just been using the last couple of days generates errors.

"File cannot be accessed' errors really irritate me.

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:26 am

Red makes 1 backup a week.

That's because each backup TAKES a week.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:35 pm

Acronis is nice, but my backup is diferential and is completely automated. Every night the backup server turns on, runs a job, then shuts down, so if I need anything I just turn it on (remotely) and can view the directory structure of all backed up files.

Actually the diagram is sort of how mine works, but much less machines.

For my C drive though, once in a while I do an acronis image.

Oh and I wish I had a tape drive and tapes, would be nice, you can put about 300GB on one single tape.

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Cold Drink · Post by **Cold Drink** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:08 pm

The problem with a differential backup is that you are either screwed sooner or you are screwed later

If you don't keep *every* backup job, including the original full backup, you can't ever restore to a clean state. So you are either unable to restore or unable to backup (due to disk space.) Of course you could keep buying more storage, but then you may look up one day and to restore something you need an entire datacenter to server the backuped files

Have you considered Subversion or CVS? Currently I'm using Subversion to backup my development projects, web site source, home directory and documents, and business documents. It works pretty niceley. Subversion has some pretty slick ways of dealing with copied and modified files, so storage space isn't so bad.

For awhile I had an automated backup script, but I axed it. I'm going to re-instate it for certian parts of my backup set (home and business directories). The script wen to each directory, added changes to the archive, then shut down the archive (I host my archives so I can grab them remotely if I like without using SSH) and copy + compress them off.

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:45 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: .
Oh and I wish I had a tape drive and tapes, would be nice, you can put about 300GB on one single tape.

TAPE Drives

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:42 pm

Yeah they're very pricy, even on ebay. Never thought of checking ebay though.

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