I am reviewing my backup options and Im getting a bit confused about what is the best way to do it. I appreciate this is sort of asking how long is a piece of string but giving my data is critical to the business then Id rather have a REALLY long piece of string!
I have a NAS drive that syncs daily to a USB drive in a separate location within the building but Ive recently signed up with BitCasa which operates a lot like dropbox and will sync the data to their servers and then also to my computer at home providing an offsite backup too.
My area of concern is that my "sync" would mean that any accidental/malicious deletion of files would also be synced over so I need to considering how many backup versions I need to keep etc.
I use Cobian Backup which allows for multiple versions to be stored but even with a full weeks worth of backup that isnt really going back very far and it could be weeks/months before a missing file was spotted.
Can anyone shed any light on what I should be considering? I was thinking 5 daily incremental backups followed by a full weekly backup keeping 12 historic weekly versions and then 8 monthly versions or do you think that is overkill?
Data wise we have some where in the region of 10GB to backup so nothing huge but wanting to make sure I am covered for all eventualities.
Thanks
I have a NAS drive that syncs daily to a USB drive in a separate location within the building but Ive recently signed up with BitCasa which operates a lot like dropbox and will sync the data to their servers and then also to my computer at home providing an offsite backup too.
My area of concern is that my "sync" would mean that any accidental/malicious deletion of files would also be synced over so I need to considering how many backup versions I need to keep etc.
I use Cobian Backup which allows for multiple versions to be stored but even with a full weeks worth of backup that isnt really going back very far and it could be weeks/months before a missing file was spotted.
Can anyone shed any light on what I should be considering? I was thinking 5 daily incremental backups followed by a full weekly backup keeping 12 historic weekly versions and then 8 monthly versions or do you think that is overkill?
Data wise we have some where in the region of 10GB to backup so nothing huge but wanting to make sure I am covered for all eventualities.
Thanks