Re: [foxboro] Backup Stragady - Win Servers
- From: "Badura, Tom" <tbadura@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:17:33 -0500
It sounds like BSER to backup server on 2nd Ethernet is the way to go.
However, at this point we have a very small system (3 P92 WPs and 1 P91
Server), and do not have BSER or a backup server. We currently use the
standard Windows Backup utility to a SCSI 8mm AIT tape drive connected
to our P91 as described in B0700BX - P91 Server 2003 System
Administration and B0400HE_D - Windows XP System Administration Guides.
We backup both the C: and D: partitions and System State of all 4
machines on a periodic bases. We also make independent backups of all
our application files - IACC Database, FoxDraw, Env, Historian
Configuration, etc. on a more frequent basis or anytime there has been a
significant change. There is not much that changes on the system, and
we do not have any mandated process data archiving requires at this
time. Our Invensys Service Engineer has told us we would have what we
need to rebuild and get any of the stations back up and running in
production.
Does any one of the more knowledgeable and experienced people on the
list see any problems or potential gotchas to this strategy?
Thank you,
Tom Badura
Plastics Engineering Company
tbadura@xxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
Brian,
Second using the BESR. It's been blessed by Invensys and is less scary
for
a customer to install on a node.
The setup I've had the best results with is BESR with BESR
Manager,(additional package), on a separate server. That way, the backup
schedule can be managed from one location.
The servers are backup up daily, the workstations, monthly or quarterly
as
desired.
The backup rotation typically used in the IT world is a standard GFS,
Grandfather,Father,Son. The Son is daily, with one graduating to Father
status weekly. The Father is weekly with one graduating to Grandfather
status monthly. The Grandfather is moved to off site. Off site can be
another server is a remote location. Keep as many monthly backups as
desired.
Speaking from experience,(bad), disk space is way cheaper than losing
data,
or explaining why data isn't there on a restore.
Hope this helps. Contact if you have any questions.
Regards,
Rick Mol
Coyote Technologies
Rick.Mol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
Thanks for all the replies, one question though, if using a centralized
backup server how is it backed up and how do you handle off site copies?
Thanks,
Brian
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