{"id":4610,"date":"2019-04-28T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T01:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catracing.org\/hendrb\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2019-04-28T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T02:17:56","slug":"technical-the-proverbial-second-chance-backup-your-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catracing.org\/hendrb\/technical-the-proverbial-second-chance-backup-your-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical – The Proverbial Second Chance (Backup your stuff!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Proverbial Second Chance \u2013 Backup Up Your Stuff<\/span><\/h1>\n

Part 1 \u2013 Windows Server Backup<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Backing up your data, an IT topic that can spawn platitudes for hours.  Don\u2019t believe me?  \u201cThere are 2 types of people in the world, people who have suffered hard drive crashes, and those who will\u201d, \u201cNot having a backup solution is betting your job you will not suffer data loss.\u201d  Caro Emerald even wrote a song about it. Click here to watch – Back It Up!.<\/span><\/p>\n

 Okay that one I just made up, but if you enjoyed the music, click bait isn\u2019t necessary a bad thing, right?  On a serious note backups are considered part of the C.I.A triangle.   NO! not that C.I.A. Remember the C.I.A triangle of security?  Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability?  Backups would fall under Availability, if you suffer a hard drive crash, or lose a RAID volume on one of your servers, It will no longer be available.  The type of backup, and backup method would determine the duration it is unavailable. If you perform no backups at all, well. Then your data is lost, and will never be available again.<\/p>\n

  There are many third-party solutions available to perform backups. Some of them like Backula are even free.  Most operating system these days provide some method of performing System, database, and file level backup.  In this series of blogs we will look at a couple.  Both Windows and CentOS Linux.  In part 1 we will start with Windows Server Backup which comes with Windows Server.<\/p>\n

  One thing to also consider is your backup media.  As with backup software, the media you choose is a equally important.  The tried and true solution is removeable tape such as Quantum’s DTL, or LTO.  While tape can be expensive, it has the advantage of the media itself not being mechanical, and able to be read in any device rated for it\u2019s specific tape model.  So if you have to rebuild or collocate your servers, The media itself can be read with just replacing the tape drive.  A cheaper method is to back it up to an external hard drive, this method is cheap, and in almost every case faster than tape.  The problem being is hard drives are mechanical, and sensitive to shock.  So if it gets dropped, or otherwise abused removing it from your site.  Your backups are useless.  Or Murphy being Murphy.  The drive will fail to spin up when you need it to, requiring a trip to a data restore company which can end up costing several times more than what a robust tape solution would.  Last but now least is cloud backups, these are relatively fast (Faster than tape, slower than hard disk), backups but totally dependent on a reliable network connection, for both a successful backup and data recovery.  Taking all of these factors into account I would recommend the tried and true tape method for backups, even though people may laugh and ask why you\u2019re living in the stone age, it is the only method currently that offers you the best chance of successful restore when you need it.<\/p>\n

  So on to the meat!  Let\u2019s start with Windows Server,  for this demonstration we are a small business with Windows 2019 Standard Servers, we will be backing up to a a second internal hard disk (Not recommended!)<\/p>\n

Step 1- Installing Windows Server Backup<\/h2>\n