Specifications

Task: maintaining CentreVu® CMS CentreVu CMS Administration
Reference: full backup 11-36
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Reference: full backup
Purpose
A full backup includes all the data in the CentreVu CMS database
tables (historical data, dictionary, permissions, etc.). It is strongly
recommended that you do a full backup at least weekly. If the backup
does not fit on one tape, you are prompted for another tape when
needed.
Allocate tapes
You can use many backup combinations to preserve your data. In the
following example, the call center does a full backup twice a week.
This is how tapes are allocated for the backups:
Set up a schedule
The next example shows how the tapes that were allocated for a twice-
weekly, full backup are rotated over a two-week period. Notice that
extra tapes alternate with regular tapes from week to week so the same
tapes are not used every time.
Backup type Day Regular tapes Extra tapes
Full Wednesday 2 (Set 1) 2 (Set 1)
Full Saturday 2 (Set 2) 2 (Set 2)
Week 1 Mon Tues Wed
Full backup
(Use regular tapes
from Set 1)
Thurs Fri Sat
Full backup
(Use regular tapes
from Set 2)
Sun
Week 2 Mon Tues Wed
Full backup
(Use extra tapes
from Set 1)
Thurs Fri Sat
Full backup
(Use extra tapes
from Set 2)
Sun