BUCHI NIRMaste - Manual (Page 46)

7 Maintenance and repairs
46 NIRMaster Operation Manual, Version A
Grandfather-Father-Son example backup strategy
A commonly used media rotation schedule is “Grandfather-Father-Son”. This scheme has an hierar-
chical structure with daily (Son), weekly (Father), and monthly (Grandfather) backup sets.
Independent media are labeled for daily backups (Monday through Thursday). This ‘Son’ group of •
media will be recycled weekly.
On Friday, a weekly backup must be perfomed. A set of up to five weekly backup media is labeled
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“Week1”, “Week2” and so on. This ‘Father’ group of media will be recycled monthly.
Full backups are stored at the end of every month. The set of twelve monthly backup media is
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called ‘Grandfather’ and will never be recycled.
Backup options
Via USB connection to an external storage •
Via network to a backup server or network storage •
7 .3 .1 Creating a database backup-file
Start the NIRWare management console to get access to the build-in backup functionality. Go to
“Administrative Tools”
➥ “Database Maintenance” ➥ “Backup & Restore”. Here, it is possible to
backup / restore the NIRMaster database and to free disk space by removing old backup files.
Backup-files can be accessed via the Windows Explorer. The standard backup destination folder path
is „C:\Program Files\Buchi\BuchiSQLExpress2005\MSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup“.
NOTE
NIRWare administrative rights are required to perform, store and proceed backups. •
Backups are named automatically (format: NIRSolution_YYYY_MM_DD.bk). •
Custom description can be added into field • a.
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