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Curious on how often people are: Backing up their Vault(s) ... Our IT is doing full back ups daily (I think it's overkill) and How often do you purge? My work doesn't want to archive ..so our Vault is getting larger and larger each day. (50-100 max new files).. We're running just the basic Vault. Thanks, Mike
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Mike Davis
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Mike,
At my old company thy used to backup daily as well. Then keep the one backup on Friday for for each of the Fridays for a month, then each month start the cycle over again.
I would venture to guess that if you lost a good chunk if not all of your vault, you would not be thinking this is an over kill.
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We do a full backup daily of the Vault database and these get included in the full servers (3) backup to tape every night. I haven't purged in a few years mainly because we upgraded from Vault Basic and the free SQL 3 years ago. So now we don't have a dbase limit, only HDD's and backup tapes, which are getting replaced with NFS and incremental (including offsite) soon.
While we had Vault Basic and the free SQL I purged about every 3 months, just to extend how long I could use the free stuff for. But once we upgraded to Workgroup I have not purged.
We run Vault Professional with full replication to remote sites.
Each site takes a full backup once a week and a incremetal backup 4 days a week. We keep one week of these backups. These backups are made with the Autodesk backup command.
My local site is hosted on VMware. We take a snapshot of the VMware image with our SAN every 12 hours. Those snapshots are copied to our offsite location (not one of the Vault remote sites) right after they are taken. We can go back several weeks with those backups.
We have never purged the Vault. The filestore is about 230 GB.
Steve Walton
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