My server admin has just got the MS info on backing up the DNS server entries. How have the rest of you gotten on with this? Any advice or recommendations for us.

You know how much I value your opinion guys...

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I'm not sure how this relates to MS software (or even Bind for that matter), but my own strategy involves backing up one file.

I use TinyDNS, and the "data" file holds all DNS entries in a human-readable/editable format. Backing up this file backs up my entire name server. Mine is generated automatically anyway by my setup scripts, but I still back it up.

I'm sure whatever software you're using stores its data in a file somewhere. Keeping a copy of that file, updating it periodically, should prove useful in the event something happened to corrupt the original.

On Unix systems you can easily set up a cron to do this; I'm sure Windows offers something similar (task scheduler?).

We use DNS Server on NT 4.0. Any experiences of similar.

Can we schedule it to backup key files overnight?

What strategies do the rest of you employ?

Cheers