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Originally Posted by Hitch
Glorfindel:
That's what we do. 3 days of incrementals, followed by a "full." (Not really full. The program/software drive isn't backed up, nor is Dropbox.) I mentioned this inside the parenthetical paragraph?
Yes, it's a little excessive. After all, we are running RAIDS, plus all data is in Dropboxes, which are themselves backups, effectively; plus we save copies of client files on Amazon S-3. Everything has massively redundant backups. Bear in mind, it's not just my data. Despite the fact that there's no agreement that we'll keep our working files, etc., upon completion, all my clients expect me to have that stuff.
Hell, for that matter, I've had clients come back to me 4 years later, seeking their original WORD file. Seriously. Can't make this stuff up.
Hitch
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Nope, not excessive at all. (Note: my job is backup!) I'm fretting about re-using tapes that are >3 years old, even though I've saved quarterly tapes from that same bunch. I'm just re-using the months in between the quarter-saves. And fretting about doing so, even though we don't PROMISE that much history, and even though I have the quarterly tapes! And even though the data is presumably still present on the tapes I'm saving TODAY. How many people want a file that was deleted 4 years ago, and didn't exist long enough to be on a quarterly tape??
But I like to keep lots of backups!