Backup Solution

Posted By Tim Voight over 10 years ago

I am looking into our backup solutions and needed to find the recommended way to backup Timberline data properly to insure a quality disaster recovery.

I have read through the knowledge base and notice that everytime you suggest a backup that we go into the server and make sure no one is logged in. The problem I have with this is I am backing up with Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Version 8.5. It has worked great for years. The problem is not everybody logs out at night when the backup happens. I do not get any access errors but it leaves me with a doubt that the data is any good. I have not done a complete restore to test the data.

Is there a proper way to automatically backup Timberline Data and know it is good data?

Thank you

Tim Voight

0 Kaohu Ah Yo over 10 years ago

Thank you for your post Tim Voight!

Brian Hennessy's recent blog post covers some insightful information on our recommended backup procedures and details on full backups. Here's a quick link to check it out... http://tinyurl.com/jwaryyu

You may want to check out this other discussion on Backups also... http://tinyurl.com/meskgnt
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0 JimStruve over 10 years ago

I used Backup Exec successfully for a number of years. The only downside is you have to make sure to schedule the jobs when no users are logged in. There is no way I have found to programmatically assure this. I just threaten the accountants with having to re-enter a day's worth of data if I have to go further back - that will get their attention!

Another tool I use is RoboCopy. It allows you to mirror the data folders to another location to allow not only create another backup, but also an easy method to quickly create a copy of the data folder for testing.
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