Using Ramdrive for a backup???

Question

Seems unconventional, but is there really a problem? Maxtor makes these 300 GB "Onetouch" ramdrives (sold by Dell). Am I a bad administrator if I forsake tape drives, internet backup etc. and just use a ramdrive as the primary backup? (This is for a small business - 4 employees.)

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bilbus · Answer

no, but you cant take the backups offsite if you do that

i use a tape drive and a HD backup

i use a 300gb external drive to backup our accounting DB, and our exchange DB

note that if you do this on a HD you will either have to overwite your file every night .. or make a script that renames your file every night after the backup

for example i use this

ren Accounting.bkf App_backup-%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%.bkf

This renames the backup file from the name accounting to App_backup-0102.bkf (or whatever todays date is)

feel free to use that script =) .. keep in mind you will need to delete the old backups from time to time .... or you will fill up the drive (you could use another script to copy the old backups to a diff dir, then delete all those files)

egerthe · Answer

Thanks for the help. But why did you say I cant take the backups off site? Im doing this for a tiny office of 4 employees; the file copy takes about 1 minute for differential backup, and they can take the drive home each night. Am I missing something?

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Using Ramdrive for a backup???

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