https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Best-practice-for-full-backup/m-p/20847#M4351 We don't stop the services, we just do the backup. The odds of our finding a time with no SAS job running is virtually 0, so we decided the cost of not getting every data set every time was less than the cost of unhappy users.<BR /> <BR /> We run daily incremental backups and weekly full backups (of everything on the server), so we generally get data sets backed up as soon as the user is done with it.<BR /> <BR /> Our environment sounds bigger than yours, but we've been doing it this way since we had just 20 users or so. Users seem to find it a reasonable balance between safety and convenience. The downside for you as a sysadmin is that you may have to look multiple places to find the file to restore.<BR /> <BR /> Doc Muhlbaier<BR /> Duke Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:54:57 GMT Doc_Duke 2009-04-20T12:54:57Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Best-practice-for-full-backup/m-p/20846#M4350 Hello,<BR /> <BR /> I lightly manage a SAS 9.1.3 SP4 Server on Windows Server 2003. I had to backup it and I want to do it by scripts.<BR /> <BR /> As I want to perform a full backup of the non-system partition containing SAS folders, I plan to :<BR /> - stop SAS/other services (to avoid modifications or even connections),<BR /> - backup the partition,<BR /> - start needed services.<BR /> <BR /> Unfortunately, I don't know exactly which services have to be stop... I think "SAS Lev1 MS - EGServers" and "SAS Lev1 OB - EGServers" are both of them because there are the only SAS services. But is there others ?<BR /> <BR /> Thanks for your answers. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:06:36 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Best-practice-for-full-backup/m-p/20846#M4350 HalfTimeSasAdmin 2009-04-20T10:06:36Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Best-practice-for-full-backup/m-p/20847#M4351 We don't stop the services, we just do the backup. The odds of our finding a time with no SAS job running is virtually 0, so we decided the cost of not getting every data set every time was less than the cost of unhappy users.<BR /> <BR /> We run daily incremental backups and weekly full backups (of everything on the server), so we generally get data sets backed up as soon as the user is done with it.<BR /> <BR /> Our environment sounds bigger than yours, but we've been doing it this way since we had just 20 users or so. Users seem to find it a reasonable balance between safety and convenience. The downside for you as a sysadmin is that you may have to look multiple places to find the file to restore.<BR /> <BR /> Doc Muhlbaier<BR /> Duke Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:54:57 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Best-practice-for-full-backup/m-p/20847#M4351 Doc_Duke 2009-04-20T12:54:57Z