backup servers in a DMZ

[patrick118]

I have two Webserver in a DMZ. I have made images of these server in case of disaster recovery but the content sometimes changes. Every few weeks or so.

The servers don't have tape drives and i was wondering how would you daily backup servers who are standing in a DMZ without a tape drive?

If we have servers like this we normally make a backup to disk to a server that has a tape drive. But in this case that would mean you have to open the firewall to one of your servers and i am not very keen on that part.

So my big question here would be.

How do you backup servers that are in a DMZ?

thanks

 

[NortonES2]

We do the part you are not very keen on, namely open the necessary ports between the LAN and DMZ for the backup software.

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If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[patrick118]

Well I have been looking around and it looks like it is the only way.

I think i will just manually open the firewall once a month an move some backups to a safe location. The contents doesn't change much so is not really big problem but i was curious how other people would solve this.

Thanks for the answer and if somebody else has an idea i would be happen to hear it.

 

[fs483]

Well if it's only the web content that changes then you can just zip up the

http://wwwroot

folder every night and maybe have an ftp session automatically send the data to another server that has a tape. Meanwhile, you can keep your disk images for the OS and IIS configs...