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Tech AdviceMatt Straka

Backing up FOUNDATION

• Schedule backups• Create backups “on the fly’” • Restore Backups• Backup Strategies• Disaster Recovery

Scheduled Backups

• Select database• Destination location• Frequency• Retention• DB Check

Manual Backups

• Why perform manual backups? • Selecting Data Source and Destination• Compression/Password

Restoring Backups

• Selecting Source and Destination• Creating/Choosing Restore As Name• Replace and Update

Types of BackupsDisk-to-Disk• NAS

– NAS – Redundant/fault tolerant– Hot-swappable drives in a RAID5 array– Capacities in the multi-TBs

• External Hard Drives– Ext. HD – Not fault tolerant– Single drives in 3.5in. or 2.5in. sizes (PC/notebook)– Upwards to 2TB for 3.5 and 500GB for 2.5 (at time of this writing)– Recommend 2 or more drives for rotation

Types of Backups• CD/DVD/BLU-RAY/Flash Memory

– CD-RW 800MB– DVD+-RW 4.7GB SL, DVD+-R 9.4GB DL – BD-RE 25GB – BD-R 25GB SL, 50GB DL

• Flash Memory Drives (USB)– Upwards to 128 GB USB drives

Recommended Methods for Backup• Round-Robin or Incremental Media

– The simplest of the rotation schemes and most widely used amongst small businesses.– A specified number of drives are uniquely identified and rotated daily.– For example, 5 drives labeled 1 through 5; drive 1 could be used on Monday, drive 2 on

Tuesday, etc. – The difference between RR and IM backups is that RR rotations normally use the days

of the week as labels and each drive is used only on that day. The IM rotation numbers the drive and just uses the next sequential drive and starts over.

– IM is easier to utilize, because if your company misses a backup day (e.g., because Wednesday is a holiday), then you might mix up which drive had the last successful backup.

• Grandfather-Father-Son or GFS– 3 sets of drives are used, 20 in all.– The daily, or son, backups are rotated daily with one of the drives becoming a father on

a weekly basis.– The weekly, or father, drives are rotated amongst themselves with one becoming a

grandfather drive on a monthly basis.

Database Utilities• Data and Backup Locations• Check DB• Repair DB• Fix ID Fields• Log files• Duplicating Databases

Navigating the Client Area • Log a support call• My Downloads

– Current Release– Archived Releases

• My Webinars– Upcoming– Archived Webinars– Codec

• Downloading additional modules

Running FOUNDATION – What Do I Need?• Hardware Requirements

– Standalone, Peer-to-Peer, Dedicated Server– Wireless vs. Wired network– Hard Drive, RAM, CPU requirement– Operating System

• Microsoft SQL Server– Version (2012, 2008, etc.)– Edition (Standard vs Express)

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