{"id":1600,"date":"2017-12-23T08:10:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T08:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:52:16","slug":"whats-in-your-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/2017\/12\/23\/whats-in-your-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"What's in your backup?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAs IT professionals we know that server backups are our sole responsibility.\u00a0 There is no one else in the building worrying about it (until they lose stuff) and no one is looking over your shoulder.\u00a0 But when the crypto-virus hits, when a catastrophic power event kills your servers, when your boss deletes the same folder for the tenth time…can you get it back?
\nAll the training in the world will not prevent every user from clicking on that download.\u00a0 I do training, I tell users not to click on unexpected attachments, but it happens.\u00a0 Are you ready?\u00a0 FYI, not selling anything.
\nBackups are easy.\u00a0 In fact, with Server 2016, they are easier than easy.\u00a0 In each of my VMWare machines there exists and “extra” 6TB drive.\u00a0 On this drive I added an extra drive to each virtual server and setup automatic daily backups.\u00a0 In general, this has been a flawless technique.\u00a0 I can restore files in minutes.\u00a0 Users do not have access (so the crytovirus doesn’t touch them) and they can be archived.\u00a0 I use a daily batch to copy these backups weeks to another backup server, giving me redundancy.\u00a0 I also have a copy in the vault that I remake every once in while.
\n“The cloud is better!”\u00a0 I have heard that alot, but I don’t think so.\u00a0 If all our user documents are on Google we are a slave to the internet.\u00a0 Yes, an IT guy just said that!\u00a0 Our internet goes down every single year!\u00a0 There has not been a single year since I became Technology Coordinator that it hasn’t happened!\u00a0 Does teaching stop when the internet goes down?\u00a0 It might, if everything a teacher uses is in the cloud.\u00a0 Instead, we keep most things internal.\u00a0 Our LMS (Moodle,)\u00a0 file servers, web servers, you name it.\u00a0 If the internet goes down, we lose the internet.\u00a0 Most teachers can continue without it.\u00a0 Maybe a lesson is altered for the day, maybe not.\u00a0 But teaching still happens.\u00a0 In districts where everything is in the cloud, it comes to a standstill.
\nConsider monthly or weekly archival moves to the cloud, not all.\u00a0 With the low cost of 6-8TB drives these days I would far rather have all these files local, and save my bandwidth for what isn’t our content.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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