User`s manual

38 Using Retrospect
E. BACKUP STRATEGIES
Often it is beneficial to develop a backup strategy to backup
important files. Below are a several strategies well suited to
the OptiVault.
E1. Hard Drive to Hard Drive to Optical Disc (DVD)
This strategy involves two scripts. The first script "Hard
Drive" will backup information from any source to a hard
drive on your network. It is recommended that you dedicate a
large, fast hard drive for this purpose.
The second script "Optical Disc" will backup selected or filtered
information to a permanent place. In this example we filtered
all documents except MS Word documents. Schedule the hard
drive backup five times a week and the Optical disc backup
once a week. The backup strategy allows you to keep all data
instantly accessible and important data safely stored on
permanent transportable media.
Follow these steps to implement this strategy:
1. Setup the "Hard Drive" script according to the instructions
in 4C except for one difference. Set the destination Backup
Media to Disk instead of CD/DVD.
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