On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, David E Ehresman wrote:
If you are able to afford to lose up to a weeks worth of data this seems like a reasonable approach. Since you are only sending your copypools tapes off once a week, if you lose your primary pool you will only be able to restore up to the most recent Friday.
We did an back-of-the-envelope for recoverability to expense, and it was shown to not be worth the cost to recover more than one week or so. Our daily incrementals on our main user data servers weigh in at about 5G a day, total. --Jim
