Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>> What software do you use for incremental backups?
>
> Acronis TrueImage.
>
>> What OS do you run on your server?
>
> Win2k. A simple workgroup file server.
>
>> How hard is it to get the Tuesday version of a particular file?
>
> Easy. The backup file is available over the network, so I just run
> TrueImage, tell it to mount a backup as a drive, select the appropriate
> incremental backup (it handles the management of incrementals and base
> backup automatically, so in the mounted incremental backup you get the 
> base
> backup plus all incremental backups up to the selected one), let it mount
> the drive, and copy the file.

Ok, so let me get this straight: you have workstations, and you have this 
one server running Win2k?

Do you backup *everything*, including the system files? How would you get 
the server back up and running, in case of a disk crash?

What if we already have a server running RedHat, and just put another server 
right next to it, running Win2K and TrueImage? Or is there a more 
straightforward way?

> Of course, there's lightning and other
> problems that could affect both drives at once, but having decent wiring, 
> a
> decent UPS and in general always an external device between any wire from
> the outside and sensitive systems (router, external modem, etc.) seems to
> be a good insurance against this. In Brazilian tropical summer storms I 
> had
> several such "front end" equipment blown up, but never a computer (or
> devices inside a computer) connected behind them.

Yes, that's exactly the thing I was afraid of. But I agree with you, a 
decent UPS should protect the data, and even in case of fire there's always 
the off-site drive...




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