Only a little... I've been looking at virtual tape options from folks like StarWind Software to bridge the gap.
* * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com>wrote: > The IronMountain DPM stuff was pricey when I talked to them three years > ago. Would be curious to hear if it's come down at all. > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > br...@briandesmond.com > > w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 5:01 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: MS DPM Opinions > > I understand that there's a paradumb shift [sic], and that we'll have some > re-thinking to do. We had TSM in-house, and it's a lot closer to DPM than > it is to Ultrabac. > > So, generally speaking, how does one achieve monthly/quarterly/yearly > offsite backups using DPM? Is there a method to synthesize a point-in-time > archive for archival and/or DR/BC purposes? > > Depending on price, we might also look at sending data over the wire to > someone like Iron Mountain, rather than using tapes, though that could be > problematic in a true DR/BC incident. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 13:03, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> > wrote: > > That's not the way it works. :-P > > > > DPM originally makes a bit-for-bit copy of the "thing" to be backed up. > After that, only changed blocks are backed up. That's on disk. Generally, I > see 50-60 generations of files being kept by clients. > > > > You can do a tape dump of the full image but that's not really the way > DPM is designed to work. It takes a slightly different perspective than > traditional backup products. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:08 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: MS DPM Opinions > > > > To further this conversation - what multiple of disk space does DPM have > available vs. the disk consumed in production, and what kind of history do > you keep? > > > > We're contemplating moving from Ultrabac and a tape robot to DPM, and > are currently doing a standard Grandparent/Parent/Child tape rotation with > a 5 year retention for the archive. > > > > Kurt > > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:26, Bob Fronk <b...@btrfronk.com> wrote: > >> I have been using DPM for about two years now. No complaints. I do > >> not use removable media, so I cannot comment on those posts. (I use > >> a secondary DPM server at another geographic site to assure offsite > >> backup of the primary DPM server) > >> > >> > >> > >> If you have specific questions, you know a couple ways to contact me > >> J > >> > >> > >> > >> BF > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:33 PM > >> To: NT System Admin Issues > >> Subject: MS DPM Opinions > >> > >> > >> > >> Heh, any of you guys have any opinions good or bad about DPM? Any > >> gotchas I should know about, etc? I'm ordering a server today to be > >> the backup repository for the VMs and physical machines that DPM will > be backing up. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> James > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
