>Could you go a bit into detail on your physical/net logical layout of repository location(s) used and your strategy for physical backup to put into bank vault(s)?
>Archive, bundle, clone or do you use more wholesale strategies like partition cloning?
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>thx
>
>thomas

Hi Thomas,

what I do is a bunch of stuff on several levels.

To the first I have my project gited and do atomic backups like described above. This means I use my Bin2Text tool you can found on VFPX to commit text representaions into git.

I can backward inside this on a day to day base (or until a single, thread is done [eine Einzelaufgabe?]) and on "major" commits

Those is remote to my local server gitosis, In case reachable via VPN, This is mostly used for the major steps and if I need to synch between comps. This is pretty forward, since there are no coworkers.

Then I do (from the days of yore) a kind of hourly mirror that simply mirrors my plain project folder to a server folder, w/o git folder. This is done by a third party tool called SecondCopy. This runs on shutdown as well. (SecondCopy is an old friend. There might be a more elegant way with git, but to automate this I would like to understand PowerShell, what is a total fail with me. I'm more into bash)

Nightly the server will run a bash script to gather my important data using tar incremental options and squeeeze this to a zip, not the tarball zipped, file by file zip.
Important are for example the git repos and the mirrored sources, mail server.

Later the night the server copies this to a private, remote server via VPN located at a thrustworty persons place.

The server then waits for an DVD-RAM, and copies the 7z to this. (there is enough space for mulitple copies each.)
The script does a 4level incremental thing (yearly, monthly, weekly and daily set) so that I need year, month, week and day to have a full restore in worst case.

The DVD-RAM cirles to third place on a weekly base. (Daily would be better, but ...)

Only manual is the change of the DVD-RAM and the git push operations.

Partition cloning only on major computer related stuff, this is to space intensive.