Network Backups

[nelliott]

Hi All,

 

I am new to system backups as these have been managed by others in my previous jobs, however, I am looking for people's opinions on systems backups which have been configured to see if you think the measures which we have in place are adequate enough. At present, we have 3 different backup jobs which are as follows:

 

File Storage Backup

- Runs incremental backups daily and then completes a full backup at the end of each week and month and backs up our SAN and the local drives on all of our servers.

 

SQL Backup

- Runs daily and backups up all of our SQL DBs on our 3 SQL Servers.

 

Server System States

- Runs weekly and backs up all of the system states on all of our physical and virtual servers.

 

Do you think this is sufficent?

The one I am most concerned about is the System States one, is it worth backing this up on a daily basis?

 

Thanks for your help in advanced!

[MrFrostmaul]

We have almost the same setup with you with the File Storage, SQL Backups and System States. Had ours like this for about 3 years now without any issues. Recently added another backup midday at lunch time as found out students done work in morning, then overwrote/deleted and we could not get back.

[nelliott]

@MrFrostmaul - thanks for your swift reply! Does a weekly system state backup seem adequate enough for yourselves?