Best Practice for Backing up enVision

[RSAAdmin]

Hello,

We have just implemented the enVision ES appliance last month.  We currently do not have any external storage setup.  All data is being stored locally on the E:\, which is 220 GBs.  Can someone help me with getting a backup plan together?  Should I be backing up to an offline database?

Thanks,

Tom

[RSAAdmin]

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File & Folders To Backup
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Here is a list of what you should backup:

    1. E:\nic\<version>\<hostname>\database\dbbkup
    2. E:\nic\<version>\<hostname>\webapps\pi\pireport
    3. E:\nic\<version>\<hostname>\webapps\pi\piquery
    4. E:\nic\<version>\<hostname>\etc
    5. E:\nic\<version>\<hostname>\conf
    6. E:\nic\csd\config
    7. E:\nic\csd\global
    8. E:\nic\csd\license
    9. E:\nic\csd\ipaddr.tab
   10. E:\nic\lsnode or (\\<nas>\vol0\lsnode, \\<nas>\vol1\lsnode, etc.)

    1. Backup copy of your NIC database.
    2. Custom reports and binds.
    3. Custom queries.
    4. Device configurations
    5. Configuration information.
    6. Common storage directory. In an LS or LS-EA configuration, this may reside on the shared storage (NAS).
    7. Common storage directory. In an LS or LS-EA configuration, this may reside on the shared storage (NAS).
    8. License key. In an LS or LS-EA configuration, this may reside on the shared storage (NAS).
    9. IP address to hostname mappings. In an LS or LS-EA configuration, this may reside on the shared storage (NAS).
   10. All collected device data. In an LS or LS-EA configuration, this may reside on the shared storage (NAS).

[DavidBruskin]

One should be asking what are the business requirements...

What is the acceptable loss of logs?

What is the acceptable downtime for recovery?

off site mandatory?

Daily's, weekly?

Bare metal backup (Snapshot image of the entire ES system)

backup of files/folders inside NTFS

Are you using EFS? Do we need to backup encryption keys?

Just use a standard server backup software? What is the recovery process or restore process?

Lot's of items to think about when discussing backup for ES systems.