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2009-10-26 11:07 PM
2009-10-27 07:54 AM
2009-10-27 08:46 AM
2009-10-27 04:57 PM
Aussie wrote:Our time machine backup doesn't have anything really to do with the weekly off-site back up. The weekly off site is just a clone of the 0.5TB RAID drive... Since it just rewrites the changed files since the last back up and we are a small office it is usually only several GB. It takes about an hour a week... When it becomes too time consuming we'll figure something else out..
This is similar to filemaker server which can schedule database backups and it is these that are recommended to be used to restore. In both cases the problem is writing to the file during a backup. OS X Server system files can also be in the same boat. I am not sure how TM handles this with "normal files" but there you go!! AFAIK TM doesnt corrupt original files but as said before the copied file might not be of use.
Also I'm not sure how you are doing your offsite backup but you can't just drag a copy of Time machine files to another disk and you need to use an app like carbon copy clone or Super duper. Unless of course your TM backup is already a sparsebundle file. (which it will be if backed up over a network and not a locally connected drive.)
The wiki lists which files are essential to be backed up.
All this is said with no experience with the BIM server or Archicad 13 so caveats apply.
With files getting larger all the time backup is a right pain particularly for offsite. A clone copy of 0.5TB server might take 20 hours. One way around this is to have two identical Time Machine disks also with the same name and rotate them on/off site.
I'd be interested to hear any others comments re backup.
2009-10-27 10:06 PM
SteveC0013 wrote:The active server files may not copy correctly during a TM backup but I dont believe it will cause corruption of the original file. Our database files are copied during the TM backup and have not had any issues. I'm saying dont rely on them for restore. If you are still worried about backing up these files why dont you set your application scheduled copies to a separate folder which is backed up by TM.Aussie wrote:
We also run filemaker server and I know it has some files that we have specifically stopped time machine from backing up for fear that TM could corrupt the original files. FM server runs it's own backups several times a day and those are manually backed up to the RAID drive right before we do the weekly backup... I assume that BIM server will work similarly, this is why I'm concerned with what files I should not let Time Machine back up while BIM server is running.
2010-02-02 08:29 PM
Aussie wrote:
The active server files may not copy correctly during a TM backup but I dont believe it will cause corruption of the original file. Our database files are copied during the TM backup and have not had any issues. I'm saying dont rely on them for restore. If you are still worried about backing up these files why dont you set your application scheduled copies to a separate folder which is backed up by TM.
2010-02-02 11:00 PM
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2016-06-04 05:42 AM
2022-03-18 01:37 AM
Just resurrecting this old topic, as I couldn’t see a newer one.
Thought people might find it useful to know that TimeMachine partial restores of BimCloud do work. We had an issue with our Teamwork libraries, and attempted a restore of the entire “Attachments” folder in the BimCloud server’s directory.
Worked perfectly, other than needing an enormous amount of space.