Statler’s Rogue Valley Views

Basic notes on proposed backup and recovery plan, with no comments on continuity yet.

Separate partitions for  operating system and data

Triple backup on separate HDD media for operating system
a) Daily differential backups of live system
Nightly removal off site of backup HDD
(Backup Exec or Image for Windows)
b) Monthly differential images of operating system (Image for Windows)
c) Quarterly off site duplicate of server (As a restore from image)

Triple backup on separate media for data
a) Daily differential backups of live system
Nightly removal off site of backup HDD
(Backup Exec or Image for Windows)
b) Twice daily direct file copies (DeltaCopy)
c) Daily off site duplicate of file copies on duplicate server(DeltaCopy)

Testing
a) Quarterly duplicate of server will verify both image and live system backup of OS
b) Daily email reports from DeltaCopy indicate successful data file copies
c) Monthly test recovery of data file copies
d) Monthly validation of image files

Finally, I took the time to Google for the removal of windows search. That thing is a waste of time and I had to keep going around it to do any serious searching. Fortunately, the Google search turned up David Arno’s site. He has a very clear explanation of how to remove it, and a work  around if there are problems.

http://www.davidarno.org/2008/08/22/how-to-remove-windows-desktop-search-…-revisited/