Toshiba Tekbright 700P - Manual (Page 170)

174 Managing the Server
Backing up your data
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Selecting backup type
First determine whether the backup is to be a partial,
incremental or full backup.
❖ Full backups will save all user files from all of the user
account personal directories, the public directory, all user
data from the Intranet, and optionally, system files can be
saved. Including system files in a full backup saves
information about user accounts, networking
configurations and your Intranet content. If anything
should happen to your system, restoring a full backup
with system files included should restore nearly all of the
server’s configuration options and customizations, as
well as all of your user data. It is recommended that you
periodically perform a full backup to assure you have
copies of all your files in case something happens to the
server system.
While full backups are the most complete and offer the best
protection, they can be very large (even though they are
compressed to minimize their size). As you place more and
more data on your Magnia SG20, the backup files can
become quite large. Consequently, you may not wish to
perform full backups every time.
❖ As an alternative to a full backup, you can perform a
partial backup. In this case, you select only specific files
for inclusion in the backup. This can reduce time required
for the backup process, as well as space required for the
backup file. This method works if you have a subset of
files which are most critical and need to be backed up
more frequently than other files on the system.
❖ The incremental backup method provides another way of
performing backups without the size and time
requirements of full backups. Once you have performed a
full backup, subsequent incremental backups can be
performed which will backup only files that have been
modified since the last backup. The incremental backup
method, used in conjunction with periodic full backups,