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Feedback on backup idea
Hello, I just had a strange idea for using an NAS system as backup location. It's not about backing up the NAS, but about backing up a central windows Server onto the NAS. I know that misusing RA...
Before rotating the disk drives, consider this...
When you backup application data like Exchange Server, MS SQL Server, etc., the full backup data will be stored in a disk drive, say A to D. (It may be done automatically because of missing data in the backup location). In the consecutive incremental/differential/log backup schedule, the changed blocks will be backed up to the connected disk drive, which was with respect to the previous full backup schedule. When restoring this modified data cannot be applied to the full backup data.
Hence, those application data should be always done as full backup, which is waste of disk space. Also, consider the files newly added in the different full backups.
I suggest you to configure backup (possibly multiple full backups) to the NAS drive and then replicate that backup data to another drive.
In case of the main backup data was lost, the data is still available in the replication server.
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Aravind
storegrid.vembu.com
When you backup application data like Exchange Server, MS SQL Server, etc., the full backup data will be stored in a disk drive, say A to D. (It may be done automatically because of missing data in the backup location). In the consecutive incremental/differential/log backup schedule, the changed blocks will be backed up to the connected disk drive, which was with respect to the previous full backup schedule. When restoring this modified data cannot be applied to the full backup data.
Hence, those application data should be always done as full backup, which is waste of disk space. Also, consider the files newly added in the different full backups.
I suggest you to configure backup (possibly multiple full backups) to the NAS drive and then replicate that backup data to another drive.
In case of the main backup data was lost, the data is still available in the replication server.
--
Aravind
storegrid.vembu.com
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