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How many days of backups do you keep?
11-13-2006, 06:16 AM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,435 Location: Baton Rouge, LA    
| How many days of backups do you keep? I'm currently backing up my forums nightly and retaining the three most recent backups. I'm considering changing to this 15 or even 30 days, since space is not an issue. What is your backup schedule and retention plan?  | ||||
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11-13-2006, 06:22 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,623 Location: Holmfirth, England  
| My backups are made every 6 hours (Cron job), and the last 3 are available. The only problem is, there is not much of a gap to detect errors in backups, been every 6 hours, your backups can quickly fill with errors.
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11-13-2006, 06:31 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,913 Location: Australia
| i didn't back up my old forum and i had learnt the lesson! I will definately do this, maybe once or twice a week. | ||||
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11-13-2006, 06:33 AM
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11-13-2006, 06:57 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,623 Location: Holmfirth, England
| Hmm, theres something i hadn't considered, thanks for bringing that to my attention. Now i need to consider either changing the amount of available backups, or increasing the time between each...
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11-13-2006, 06:58 AM
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11-13-2006, 06:59 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,623 Location: Holmfirth, England
| I think it may be best either increasing the time to 18 or 24 hours, or increasing the amount kept up to 6.
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11-13-2006, 07:02 AM
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11-13-2006, 07:05 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,623 Location: Holmfirth, England
| Unfortunatly i don't have the space for so many backups  (Well not on the server my forum is on, i do have a virtually unused server account on a different server, but thats for my latest project, and the offer to start up forums)
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