We ahve about 50 tapes in circulation , which gives us 10 weeks work of tapes (we only use 1 dat/day).
Every month, 1 tape is removed from circulation and archived, replaced with another tape to keep up the numbers. The company I used to work for sent offsite backups to the bank once a week, and every month or so, collected them. -----Original Message----- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 October 2001 20:12 To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: Tape rotation best practices We are 4 weekly rotations. Current week on site. We keep month-end tapes for a year. William -----Original Message----- From: David Strome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 12:07 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: Tape rotation best practices Brings up another point that I'm interested in.. We currently keep all tapes offsite except for the current day's set. We have an extremely simple rotation. M-W differential, overwritten weekly. Thurs and Fri are full, overwritten every five weeks. What do other orgs do? How do you balance data retention against liability? We have a policy that states data not on disk has a lifespan of five weeks...to avoid the Microsoft horror. Too short? I'm also wondering if more indepth backup rotations are useful in a smaller org like us...we typically back up about 150 gigs a week. Or are we still good with with diff/normal on a weekly basis? And does anyone else notice that the day after a backup fails, someone asks for a restore? How the heck to you get around that without having a parallel backup system doing the same backups? -----Original Message----- From: Hunter, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:57 AM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: Off site backups Sounds like he read a blurb in a magazine. Does he really mean hire someone to TAKE backups or does he just want you to establish a tape rotation whereby most of your tapes are offsite at all times? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 1:34 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: Off site backups in lieu of sept 11th our CFO has asked me to research companies that do off site backups of client networks... I assume that a company comes in puts a node on your network and a T circuit and pulls backups off that way ove the internet? does anyone know what I am talking about?? if so does anyone know of or recommend a company that does this our backups are about 40 GB ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
