Your backup computer has other duties at other times. You have a backup computer dedicated solely to that purpose. The table below lists situations which are suited to ProactiveAI Backup scripts or regular backup scripts. When you need to back up a network of client computers, you must decide which kind of backup scripts to use. Make sure to verify your backups, either during backup using the Thorough or Media verification options, or after a backup has finished using a verification script or the Verify Media command.īack up your Catalog Files to their own Backup Set. See Media Longevity and Storage for more information. Media can also wear out after as few as several hundred uses. Take care of your backup media, which can easily be damaged by the environment. You probably have put more time and energy than you realize into your Retrospect configuration and catalogs. Use meaningful names for your Backup Sets based on what they contain and how often they get rotated and then label your media appropriately.Īlways store at least one Backup Set off-site to guard against fire, theft, and natural disaster.īack up the backup computer. (If even one tape of a set is damaged, you no longer have a complete backup.) A benefit of new media in your backup strategy is that it is faster to restore from a few media members than to restore from a set that has many members and backup sessions. Regularly introduce new media using New Backup Set backups, because having all of your backups on one media set leaves you too vulnerable.
Using more Backup Sets makes you less likely to lose data if you misplace or damage media. Retrospect is most effective when you back up everything and back up often, which you can ensure by setting up scripts to automate backups. For example, if your hard disk malfunctions today but you most recently backed it up a week ago, you have lost the data you have accumulated over the week. To customize these default preferences for an individual client:īack up often because you cannot restore what is not backed up.Locking client features and preferences.Upgrading from a previous version of Retrospect.
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