Backup strategy with versioning

Hello forum,
I'm actualy looking into organizing our backups in a new way and I would like to know how you guys perform your file-backups.
We used to just copy our projects per sync-tool to another internal drive and archive unused projects on our nas. The problem with that setup is that you don't have older versions if you for example overwrite the wrong file and that wrong file is allready copied to the backup.
There is timemachine on the mac, but is there something similar under windows 7, that's also performing well with large data of video, graphics and After Effects files?
I'm looking forward to your experiences and workflows.
Thanks in advance
Daniel

We use Paragon here because it is cheaper and provides standard imaging and Drive tool features. The ability to backup data realtime similar to Differential backups without scheduling though is a feature only Retrospect has that I am aware of currently.
Eric
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Hi, I am new into the job of sys admin, so we recently setup a system with running solaris 10 and with its storage as a NetApp, but we do not have yet a library or tape drive attached to it.
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Hi,
Currently I'm trying to implement a backup strategy with RMAN.
Scenario: My side we're 5 days operational (Monday to Friday). I'm planning my backup as follow:
Mon – Incremental level 1 differential
Tue – Incremental level 1 differential
Wed – Incremental level 1 cumulative
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Fri – Incremental level 0 (aka full database backup)
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hi,
there is Oracle suggested backup strategy
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/bkup004.htm
other
http://books.google.cz/books?id=3aEIIqRHkY8C&pg=RA1-PA326&lpg=RA1-PA326&dq=oracle+rman+backup+stratery&source=bl&ots=DrnVZ3tZPs&sig=QajKM0SXbpoa3eWZgl5kmwmSUPI&hl=cs&ei=o6xcSvSaCpKwsAbmu8yVDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4
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Tom

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STSADM.EXE : Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be restored to a server running
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At line:1 char:1
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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (Your backup is ...6318' or later.:String) [], RemoteException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError

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First of all, it probably is not the best to leave your puter on 24/7. I won't go into all the OS reasons why. But here are 2 other reasons to think about:
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Best backup strategy

Time Machine is brilliant. It's saved me many times.
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I therefore lost ALL my backups.
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So what is the best backup strategy, bearing in mind drives can fail, houses can burn down, etc. Should I have two or three Time Machine backup discs and keep swapping them every day so if one dies I've still got a one-day-old version?
Making DVD backups and storing them elsewhere is very time consuming and while my data is really important to me, it defeats the object if I can get on with any work on that data as I'm constantly burning to lotsof DVDs!
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Hi,
short story:
Due to the structure of the library I have the "originals" and "modified" images, when edited some. When importing a library into another without copying them I have some/many thumbnails twice. How do I prevent iPhoto to use the original thumb when a modified exists?
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What you really need to use isMedia Expression. It creates catalogs containing thumbnails of the cataloged photos and the catalog can be used without the source file being available.
You can add keywords and other identifiers to the photos while just using the catalog and then when you get back and have the source files available the new metadata can be applied to the actual file.
Expression Media appears to be available for the upgrade price of $99 if you are using iPhoto as shown here:
$99 (Full Version $199)
For qualifying owners of:
Licensed copy of an earlier version of Expression Media or any iView Multimedia product.
OR
Any licensed photographic software, including Windows Photo Gallery or iPhoto
That info is from this site: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Upgrade.aspx and by clicking on the "here" link on that page. I've emailed the developers to see if I've intrepreted that page correctly.
In the meantime you can download and run the demo. You can also catalog your iPhoto library with EM and write all metadata entered in iPhoto back to the original files. Steps 1-7 of Old Toad's Tutorial #1 describe how. That page is in revision since iView is no longer available and Step #2 is slightly different with the EM demo. It should be changed by the end of the day today.
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Just created my first Sql Database using the "SQL Database Management Portal". A blast but three questions come to mind:
1. Is this DB automatically
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[email protected]

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I cannot take credit for the any part of this solution; merely for merging and clarifying how the solutions discovered by 2 Apple Support Communities contributors much smarter than I (namely “Pondini” – Florida and “himynameismarek”) - worked perfectly for my situation. All cudo’s to these two!
I have about average or better PC skills, but am an absolute newbie with Apple. This week I got a new iMac. Having a number of home PC’s all sharing files and back up space on a Western Digital MyBookLive (“WD MBL”) 3TB network drive (NAS), naturally I wanted to use it to backup the new Mac rather than rushing out to buy an Apple Time Capsule.
There are hundreds of threads on limiting size of a Time Machine (“TM”) backup, many of which required entries in “Terminal” or were devised on older versions of OSX. I’m running OSX Mountain Lion 10.8, so was concerned they may not work.
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Time Machine will use up all of the space on my WD MBL if left to it’s own devices.
The WD MBL is compatible with Mac and PC’s… which is good… but unlike a back up in Windows 7 Pro which will allow you to make backups in a mapped “share” you create yourself, Apple TM Backups will not; they end up in a hidden folder on the NAS (much like PC backups done with WD Smartware)
At first I thought maybe I could limit the size of a share created in the MBL, but not possible, at least not that I've seen and I have searched for days.
The solutions:
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Next you need to start TM so that it starts to create a back up. You can stop the back up once you see files being copied. Do this before you walk thru the video tutorial by my Marek below. WD MBL will create the hidden folder you need to find for TM Backups. This folder is called “TimeMachine” but it is not visible even in the “MBL_NAME-backup” folder in Finder.
Open safari and type “ afp://xxx.xxx.x.xxx ” but use your own ip address of your MBL. Mine was 192.168.1.120, yours will be different.
It will ask how you want to connect. CHOOSE AS A GUEST even if your MBL is protected… I’m not sure why it works but it does. Then a window will come up asking which share you’d like to mount. You will see all of your own shares plus one called software and now one called “TimeMachine”. Choose that one.
Now in “Finder” you will see a mounted shared item called “YOUR_MBL_NAME-“ (the same as the one that is probably already there but with a dash(-) at the end). You’ll also see a new “device” in the device list called “Time Machine Backups” (If you already have watched the video tutorial by Marek, you’d know you are looking for a file called “YOUR_MACHINE_NAME.sparsebundle”. Well if you browse the folder “Backups.backupdb” in the Time Machine Backups device you won’t find it… again I don’t know why but you won’t. It resides in the hidden folder called “TimeMachine” that is now visible in the thing you just mounted in step 4)
NOW watch this video tutorial http://youtu.be/Nq7mSizqUSI and follow it step by step.
Voila... issues resolved. Thank you Pondini and Marek!

Try Use Terminal to limit Time Machine sparcebundle size on timecapsule,
should work to limit Time Machine backup size on any NAS or external disk (or not...)
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine MaxSize 500000
to return to ilimited
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine MaxSize
if you want to reclame deleted files space shrink it use
hdiutil resize -size 500g -shrinkonly /Volumes/TimeMachineYOURNAME/YOURNAME.sparsebundle/
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