Back up for Primary Schools

[sydborn]

Hi ,

 

Please what backup are you using for your primary school?

[witch]

I have a cloud backup with a local support company. Prior to this I backed up to an external drive

[sydborn]

Hi @witch is it any cheap? Affordable!

 

I have a cloud backup with a local support company. Prior to this I backed up to an external drive

[sparkeh]

We use Veeam to backup our VMs to a NAS in a second building which then copies to a NAS in a third building.

 

Our sims server uses a cloud backup service offered by our LA.

[witch]

Depends where you are and who you use. We have a maintenance contract with them as well so I can't give you a price for just the backup. But lots of people do it, including our Local Authority. Where are you, @sydborn ?

[Edu-IT]

I used to use this. Cost wise it was less than some of the bigger names but did just the job.

 

https://www.opsoftware.net/cloud/op-smartbackup/

[AlanD]

I sort of feel that you need to gather some information before coming up with a plan. Is the data on a server? How much data is it? How much changes per day/week. Is there data on tablets (yuk) or in the cloud...or indeed in other random places..like pen drives(I strongly advise against these as a primary way of storing data...can't tell you how many times I've had students in tears after they have lost their course work cause their pen drive is corrupt....had staff in tears too after losing all their smart board lessons). Is this to be backup...to guard against some failure? Or archive to go back to something used last year and no longer stored?

 

So it probably won't just be a "solution" but needs to be include rules where data is saved....

 

If it's stored centrally...I think windows server backup is really good...with some usb3 Drive adaptors and a cyclical swap of drives. Be prepared to be pro active...users need to understand they can still lose files between one backup and next...you need to check..daily...that backups are working...and they contain data that can be recovered.

 

Give some thought to...saving everything in the cloud in office 365....which allows you to go back....

[Primus]

I now have an image of @AlanD in my head as McGyver, holding things together with improvised solutions everywhere - rotating hard drives manually, using anything other than a leased line for Internet etc...

 

For what it's worth, the more automated your backup solution the better. The more manual interventions that are needed the more chance you will forget, get distracted or do something wrong that will be catastrophic.

 

Obviously you need to monitor automated backups but they're the best solution.