Interview Question: Backup Strategy

[n5gooner]

Single or double sided honey

single sided, but we could always flip you over and give your grove a good probing.

[Betty]

360k 5.25" floppy disks - that'll do the trick.

Single or double sided honey

[BobTheCrate]

Here's a good one,

interview question, what should we implement as backup strategy for system x ?

Howsabout,
"a thumping good pension" ?
An essential back-up strategy for every self respecting Gov't IT project.

[n5gooner]

360k 5.25" floppy disks - that'll do the trick.

[PerlOfWisdom]

This week I will be mostly using ..... paper tape

[Spacecadet]

i presume you're referring to database systems

depends on the size of it, the system it resides on and the likelyhood of the data changing between backups.

smaller ones plus lots of available disk space can get full backups regularly
average size, full one once a day and lots of differential backups

large databases, full one once a week, transactional every night and differential frequently

[lws]

Depends what you're backing up. Son, father, grandfather works well

[milanbenes]

Here's a good one,

interview question, what should we implement as backup strategy for system x ?


there are so many backup philosophies

full / differential / partial / log

when to do which and why ?

Milan.