Follow up to this post: http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/backing-bac...
- A good (and most recent) full backup of C: (which is usually where your OS gets installed) and the System State
Can someone explain why you need a full backup of C:? I can deploy a new server in less than 15 minutes. If I can just backup the system state and restore that to a newly deployed server I think it’s most efficient overall. Is that a valid solution?
2. A good (and most recent) backup of the Data and Catalogs folder (this contains your Backup Exec database and Catalogs)
Note: The Data and Catalogs folder must be backed up manually (i.e. Stop all BE services, copy - paste teh two folders)
Also, in reference to http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/how-protect-backup-exec-itself. He mentions having a backup of BEDB.bak, but then says to also backup the entire Data folder. The entire folder seems like the wrong idea. I can’t backup the live database files in there unless I stop the services which seems less than ideal. What about the other .bak files in that directory? Should I just backup all the .bak files?
Also for the catalogs folder it seems you could leave the services running as long as you’re backing up with VSS.
Thanks in advance.