Disaster Recovery

[mike_howles]

I'm in the process of sorting out the Company's Disaster Recovery Plan.

part of this plan is the backup and restore of Mission Critical data, Actinic is a part of this.

Supposing we have a complete disaster and all hardware is destroyed. I buy a new PC and install Actinic.

If I had a backup of the last snapshot, would that allow me to continue with all functionality or is there anything else that needs to be backed up?

Cheers

Mike

[leehack]

As long as everything is stored in site1 folder a snapshot is all you need.

[wfl]

Site 1 (or wherever if you have Business/Dev/MU) and any externally linked files or images.

You might want also to back up any custom theme / colour / button / skin and the ini file from ../Formats on whatever machine you design on.

We use MU and back up the site folders on the server every night. We also run a Windows xcopy to another machine on the network for belt and braces. We occasionally copy the ../Formats folder from the PCs that do any design work.

[mike_howles]

Great, thanks chaps.

I only use the Site1 folder. All images etc are always placed in there so that'll do for me.

I will be backing up all images we use on the overnight tape backup as these are static files.

I might even test the theory with a new clean machine. At the same time I'll test the Actinic V8.05 upgrade.

Mike

[leehack]

Guarantee you the snapshot does it all Mike, its the greatest feature of Actinic IMO - a real user friendly simple method. Guy who thought of snapshot needs a medal. So easy to setup a customers website with a snapshot.