Regular backups

titan31 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:56:47 GMT

Hi,

We're looking at doing some regular backups on our SAS system, as we now have space to backup files across the servers, rather than just the metadata backup.

We're on a linux system, and just wondering are these the two main folders that need to be backed up regularly across all servers (compute, mid-tier, metadata)? Do other SAS Administrators do regular VM snapshots or physical backups?

/sas/sashome
/sas/sasconf

Thanks,

Re: Regular backups

AnandVyas — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:27:41 GMT

Hi @titan31

If you can do regular cold backups, I think it would suffice. If you have the option for VM snapshots then I think it's good to have. Usually for non-prod environments, I go with the cold backups only for SAS binaries and configuration files as you have mentioned. For prod, we do have VM snapshots.

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Regular backups

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