Daily IT Matters [DIM]

Every week I make an ASR backup of my Windows 2003 R2 servers, some of them are physically located at another site. Due to that fact I had to think of a secure way to get my data over the WAN to my office. Just plain copying is not an option because we all know if one bit falls over my complete ASR backup is rubbish. And I would have wasted precious bandwidth. A solution I could come up with was to use plain old WinRar, I found out that there was a command line version as well. But the help that comes with that version is kinda cryptic. Below is my command line that I came up with. rar a d:\asr-bu\done\asr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:\asr-bu\*.bkf I will explain it in full detail: rar a d:\asr-bu\done\asr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:\asr-bu\*.bkf a = add files to archive, that really speaks for itself I think. we are going to add files to an archive. rar a d:\asr-bu\done\asr_server.rar

Well I've found out the hard way how append actually works in Backup Exec. I thought and I think most of the people that when you create a job and in that job you select " Append to media overwrite when no appendable media is found " that the job would overwrite your media when there is no more room on the tape. This is partially true. This does NOT work when you have set your Media set to " Infinite - allow append " then it will append until your media becomes full and then asks you for new media, I've found this quite confusing. The trick is that you have to set the append period for your media set to a period of time otherwise your media will not be able to be overwritten when your tape becomes full. I've set my media set to an append period of one 1 week after that the media set will be overwritten by the backup job. I have enough space for that make sure when you create your append period that you have enough room on your tap

After the installation of service pack 4 of Backup Exec 10d. I noticed that my backup of the DFS was completely empty. I made a backup of my DFS root as specified in the lengthy manual of backup exec approximate ~1400 pages! But all of a sudden Backup Exec seemed to have changed the way they make DFS backups. The way to backup a DFS is now as follows: When you create your selection list go to the server holding your DFS go to [Shadow Copy components] ==> [User Data] ==> [Distributed Filesystem Replication] ==> [DfsrReplicatedFolders] There you will find your Folders which you want to backup. Technorati Tags: Backup Exec 10d , Backup , DFS , DFSR , Windows Server 2003 R2 , service pack 4 , DFS root , shadow components