Understanding Backup Requirements for Servers
A well-planned backup strategy is essential to protect the enterprise information assets. Rigorously following the backup strategy will provide insurance against data lost by acts of nature, hardware or software failure, or human error. The backup strategy must balance the level of protection you need against the physical constraints of the system, such as information storage capacity.
We recommend that the backup strategy include these:
Perform a full system backup whenever data is at risk, such as when you are installing or upgrading software. In this circumstance, at least back up the database completely.
Each night, back up changed objects, such as tables and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne objects.
Each week, back up the deployment server, enterprise servers, and the full database.
When you perform a backup on a server, you can back up either the entire server or only the changed objects and data. You do not need to perform a complete backup of the server nightly. Only directories that change daily require daily backups.