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This article describes the way PresSTORE allocates data on the media and takes a closer look at how to influence the behaviour in detail. The basic idea PresSTORE uses a |
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| Weekend full, weekday increment, alternating tapes | |
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Frequently we get asked how to implement a backup strategy that you have used to employ with your old backup product.The requirements (which you are used to): |
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| Backup spanning over several media |  |
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Most people prefer to associate the backup media with cycles in order to be able to remove
one cycle's (e.g. one week's) worth of media and store them in a safe place. When
using virtual jukeboxes on hard |
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| Backup to disk, best practice for small business | |
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This article attempts to describe a best practice for a backup to disk in a small business environment to save data to an external hard disk in a separate case, connected e.g. via USB or FireWire and supported by the operating system. |
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| What are the backup levels used for | |
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PresSTORE supports three different backup levels. Here is a brief description what these can be used for:The full backupThe full backup saves all files selected for backup and writes them to the |
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| How and why to avoid continuing incremental backups | |
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PresSTORE 3 implements a referenced backup by means of an index that holds the information maintaining which files are on the backup media. When running an incremental backup, new files are not only saved because of their new time stamp, but because the |
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