[FX.php List] Backing up to an external drive

[Jay Sayers]

I successfully back up to a drive other than the boot drive. It IS an  
internal drive in our XServe.

At the "under the hood" closing session as well as an early "Server  
Best Practices" session at Devcon 2007 ( just yesterday ) they  
stressed that backing up directly to a network drive could be a  
disaster. Filemaker server would have to wait while the back was  
complete AND if ANYTHING were wrong with the network connection  
( cable comes unplugged?), the backup would be worthless among other  
things.

Best practice is to backup locally to the server, then move THAT  
backup copy elsewhere.

Jay

On Aug 9, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen  
<ggt667 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my XServ I have connected a firewire cable to the internal firewire
> connector and it works :-)
>
> ggt667
>
> On 8/9/07, Troy Meyers <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com> wrote:
>> Bob,
>>
>> In my thread "Not a valid path - for scheduled backups" some others  
>> have said that backing up to an external drive does work. It _did_  
>> work for me, at least until 5/27/2007, then after that it didn't,  
>> possibly because I installed SecUpd2007-005Univ.pkg on the 28th.
>>
>> Also in the tread it was said that it was a NETWORK drive that  
>> couldn't be backed-up to.
>>
>> -Troy
>>
>>
>>> My understanding has been that FM Server 8, and now 9, will not  
>>> allow
>>> backing up to other than an internal drive, but I could be wrong. I
>>> don't remember where that information came from, but I *think*  
>>> that I
>>> got it straight from FileMaker, Inc., from a tech.
>>>
>>> The best method that I've found for safe database deployment is a
>>> RAID 5 on the machine (which I'm implementing sometime in the next
>>> week) with backups to this RAID, and then pulling the backup sets  
>>> off
>>> to a remote computer, where I burn to DVD-R on a regular basis.
>>>
>>> Is there ANYONE on this list who successfully makes scheduled  
>>> backups
>>> to other than the boot drive? Is your backup volume internal or
>>> external (can't see how that would matter, just looking for clarity
>>> here)?
>>>
>>> Bob Patin
>>
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