Questions tagged [backups]

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How far should you be from your closest data backup?

Pretend for a moment that something catastrophic happened; you're hacked, and your production database becomes a mess. How far (time) should you be from your rolling out your latest backup and resuming operations as normal? Of course, "immediately"…
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What is the difference between data retention and data archival?

The article at http://www.complianceguru.com/2010/11/archiving-vs-retention-of-email-and-other-electronic-data/ seems to suggest there is a difference. It isn’t very clear though what if the difference is apart for the length of time it may be…
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Sharing Large Database Backup Among Team

I work on a team of three - five developers that work on an ASP.net web application remotely. We currently run a full local database from a recent backup on all of our machines during development. The current backup, compressed, is about 18 GB. I'm…
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how do you back up your code on your local computer?

Possible Duplicate: Version control for independent developers? I have a folder containing all my code (working code, experiment code). I'd like to back it up to a zip file on an external hard drive or whatever is best. How do you guys backup…
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backup visual studio folder and sql database

I like to backup things every night or say every week. I'm sure there's a more efficient way than emailing the solution folder and database files to myself! I don't have team foundation or any commercial products like that. I'm looking for a…
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