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Hi All,

i have 1 TB Space on Nagios Log Server and i have planned to take the logs snapshot backup in External Storage. So that later i can check my logs by restoration process.

Would you suggest how can we take backup for last 6 Month as this is incremental backup file of logs data, and can we restore the old backup or is it recommended to restore on same/production server OR we should use new test Nagios log server.

Please suggest.

Thanks!
Rishabh

Hi @syedsheraz,

If you haven't already, I would take a look at our Snapshots & Maintenance documentation, which describes our supported process for performing backups. Our process doesn't achieve incremental backups - we create a separate .tar.gz each time. That said, you may be able to integrate with another program that turns separate backups into incremental backups.

For restoring backups, I would test restoring the backup (which is hopefully a routine task) on the test server, but if you need to restore the data due to an event in production, I would use the production server.

Hopefully that helps, please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.