Hey Brian, I'll let you know when I go down there next what kind it is. Of course, it's not been tested that I know of!
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Dugas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:21 AM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: Tape rotation best practices What burn time do you have on your Fireproof Safe? What type of Safe is it. We are considering purchasing a Fireproof Safe but are uncertain of the best one to suit our needs. Brian Dugas MIS Director Summit Technical Services, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.summit-technical.com Voice: 401-736-8323 x11 Fax: 401-738-8851 -----Original Message----- From: Hunter, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:31 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: Tape rotation best practices I have a robotic library, so I keep the previous weeks' backups in a firebox for 5 days (M-F). On Friday the little man in the van comes to take them away and he gives me back my tapes from 6 weeks prior. I backup two of the SQL servers daily because you can't do differential with SQL. I'm not sure why it's daily, paranoia maybe. Exchange, full every day no exceptions and there shouldn't be. When someone requests something the day after the backup failed I try to figure out a way to blame them for the backup failing. ;) -----Original Message----- From: David Strome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:07 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] ------ 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] ------ 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]
