ABR11.5 SBS - what's the best plan for us to use?
We've just started using ABR for our SBS 2003 server. At the moment we are creating a full image of the whole disk each night to an external drive. We have 4 external drives; one is used once a week and taken off-site and stored until next week, and we cycle alternately through the other 3, taking the previous night's drive off-site until the next day.
It's a slow server and it takes about 10 hours to do the backup. Would we be better off doing incremental backups? Would ABR be able to handle the different disks? On a particular night, ABR would have to add increments for the last 3 days to a three-day old image, even though it did an incremental backup to a different drive the previous night.
Or is there a better way for us to set up our backups?
Thanks for the reply, and my apologies for the delay in responding — I have had some network problems and everything else got pushed to the back.
Every morning I remove the drive with last night's backup. and put it in the car. I then plug in the drive with the oldest backup which is no more than a few days or a week old. At present, the old backup is deleted and a fresh backup made.
Once a week, instead of putting the backup up in my car, I give it to a colleague who takes it home for a week (in case anything happens to me!). He brings it back the following week and I give him the latest backup to take away.
We only keep the backups for disaster recovery and none of the backups are kept for more than a week.