Why not do a one-time restore of really old backups to your newer backup medium? That way you can always use your current SW for a restore from any time frame.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Tape backup policies On 6/3/2011 9:53 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: > > Here is something I don't recall being discussed... > > LTO1 may be read by an LTO3 drive. Our LTO3 tapes supposedly can be > read by our new LTO5 drive... > > What I'm getting at is, keeping "forever" may require moth-balling > machines so they can be read if necessary.... Or drives .. I have a stand-alone SDLT320 and stand-alone SDLT600 tape drive, attached to a server other than my current backup server, specifically for the reason of reading old tapes. It becomes more aggravating when I need an old ArcServe tape, instead of more current Networker. That's why I have a separate machine that is a Networker storage ndoe, that also has ArcServe installed on it. So I can start whichever backup program I need, to do restores. ~ 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 ~ 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
