Backup Strategy

[gilkesy]

Can someone please advise on my backup strategy?

 

I have Retrospect 7.

 

I do a daily backup to my Western Digital Media Centre External Drive. I keep a copy of the last 14 backups so that the drive never becomes full

 

I want to do a monthly backup to DVD. Should I do a fresh back up every month with a new set of disks replacing the previous set or should I keep appending to the current set.

 

Also, I'd like to think about archivng some stuff. Should I archive to my local hard drive so that the (compressed) archive is included in the daily backup. Or should I archive to fresh DVD+R disk.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[natew]

Hi

 

First off - this is a good strategy.

 

If you want extra protection against media failure you should do monthly backups to a new backup set each time. Otherwise you can just use the same backup set and append new and changed data.

 

If you decide to archive I would make sure the data is copied two two different sets of backup. DVD media is far from perfect.

 

Thanks

Nate