Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Simon,

A couple of years ago we retired DLT IV and LTO1 drives, going to a library 
with LTO4 drives only.
I used bpimmedia to work out which images were on the old media then 
bpduplicate to duplicate all long term retention  images that were on the old 
DLT IV and LTO1 media to LTO3 or LTO4 tapes.

Mark

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Morning Guys
Not exactly a problem, but a question.
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old kit and 
media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as Servers, DDS tape 
drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones too!! amnd legacy Unix systems.

Now, what I was puzzled about is how would they go about restoring this 
Data?, considering most of the Technology has just been removed / phased out.

It got me thinking that we have 5 - 10+ year retention of Tapes for NetBackup 
on LTO1 tapes but no means of loading it, you do not have high hopes of 
restoring it. Unless you obtain an LTO1 drive. But say 30 years down the 
line. then what! Chances are, NetBackup may not read it, or worse No 
NetBackup environment at all ! (Similar to the client who was using their own 
standard 1990's backup software that is no longer produced and in a format that 
cannot be read!)

So really, curious how people would protect those essential years of Data?

Regards

Simon

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-19 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi Mark
Thanks for this. Yes, this is one method, but what about a backup
solution - ie: now 20 years out of date, no media, no server to restore
to and in a format unknown to todays backup systems.
 
What would you do then?  :-)
the client does not seem bothered, and is happy to destroy the Data. But
if you are a banking client or someone that needs access to 20+ yr Data,
then surely your planning has to account for this? Or maybe another
solution?
 
Simon



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Subject: RE: Retaining Date for 20 years+



Simon,

 

A couple of years ago we retired DLT IV and LTO1 drives, going to a
library with LTO4 drives only.

I used bpimmedia to work out which images were on the old media then
bpduplicate to duplicate all long term retention  images that were on
the old DLT IV and LTO1 media to LTO3 or LTO4 tapes.

 

Mark

 

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Simon (external)
Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2010 3:50 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

 

Morning Guys 
Not exactly a problem, but a question. 
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old
kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as
Servers, DDS tape drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones too!! amnd
legacy Unix systems.

Now, what I was puzzled about is how would they go about restoring this
Data?, considering most of the Technology has just been removed /
phased out.

It got me thinking that we have 5 - 10+ year retention of Tapes for
NetBackup on LTO1 tapes but no means of loading it, you do not have high
hopes of restoring it. Unless you obtain an LTO1 drive. But say 30 years
down the line. then what! Chances are, NetBackup may not read it, or
worse No NetBackup environment at all ! (Similar to the client who
was using their own standard 1990's backup software that is no longer
produced and in a format that cannot be read!)

So really, curious how people would protect those essential years of
Data? 

Regards 

Simon 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-19 Thread stefanos
Well, 

netbackup is using tar to write and read to the tape. If you not use
multiplexing, and you know what is on what tape, then you can restore
backups without netbackup.

 

I have come in front of many companies that have 15 years backups and they
try to find a travan tape drive (or other) and the software to read the
tapes.  

 

 

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To: Mark Phillips; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

 

Hi Mark

Thanks for this. Yes, this is one method, but what about a backup solution -
ie: now 20 years out of date, no media, no server to restore to and in a
format unknown to todays backup systems.

 

What would you do then?  :-)

the client does not seem bothered, and is happy to destroy the Data. But if
you are a banking client or someone that needs access to 20+ yr Data, then
surely your planning has to account for this? Or maybe another solution?

 

Simon

 

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From: Mark Phillips [mailto:mark.phill...@unisa.edu.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:37 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: Retaining Date for 20 years+

Simon,

 

A couple of years ago we retired DLT IV and LTO1 drives, going to a library
with LTO4 drives only.

I used bpimmedia to work out which images were on the old media then
bpduplicate to duplicate all long term retention  images that were on the
old DLT IV and LTO1 media to LTO3 or LTO4 tapes.

 

Mark

 

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Simon (external)
Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2010 3:50 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

 

Morning Guys 
Not exactly a problem, but a question. 
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old kit
and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as Servers, DDS
tape drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones too!! amnd legacy Unix systems.

Now, what I was puzzled about is how would they go about restoring this
Data?, considering most of the Technology has just been removed / phased
out.

It got me thinking that we have 5 - 10+ year retention of Tapes for
NetBackup on LTO1 tapes but no means of loading it, you do not have high
hopes of restoring it. Unless you obtain an LTO1 drive. But say 30 years
down the line. then what! Chances are, NetBackup may not read it, or
worse No NetBackup environment at all ! (Similar to the client who was
using their own standard 1990's backup software that is no longer produced
and in a format that cannot be read!)

So really, curious how people would protect those essential years of Data?


Regards 

Simon 


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Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-19 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:20 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) 
simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote:

  I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old
 kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as Servers,
 DDS tape drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones too!! amnd legacy Unix
 systems.

 Now, what I was puzzled about is how would they go about restoring this
 Data?, considering most of the Technology has just been removed / phased
 out.

 It got me thinking that we have 5 - 10+ year retention of Tapes for
 NetBackup on LTO1 tapes but no means of loading it, you do not have high
 hopes of restoring it. Unless you obtain an LTO1 drive. But say 30 years
 down the line. then what! Chances are, NetBackup may not read it, or
 worse No NetBackup environment at all ! (Similar to the client who was
 using their own standard 1990's backup software that is no longer produced
 and in a format that cannot be read!)

 So really, curious how people would protect those essential years of
 Data?


There are a lot of 3rd party companies that will gladly take your money to
restore this data.  I suspect they're not cheap for the obvious reason that
they have to maintain this old crap, but that's the price you pay for
restoring stuff you probably shouldn't have been backing up in the first
place.

Even if you get the data physically off of tape, can you actually do
anything with it? Do you even know the name, for example, of the server that
held your financial data 15 years ago?  Even if you had that data, do have
the hardware and software that can actually do anything with that data?  Are
the applications so old that they won't even run on modern hardware?  Are
the data formats so old that today's applications won't open them either?

Backups are not archives, and you're seeing one of the many reasons why
that's true.

   .../Ed
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-19 Thread David Magda
On May 19, 2010, at 02:39, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:

 Thanks for this. Yes, this is one method, but what about a backup
 solution - ie: now 20 years out of date, no media, no server to  
 restore
 to and in a format unknown to todays backup systems.

 What would you do then?  :-)
 the client does not seem bothered, and is happy to destroy the Data.  
 But
 if you are a banking client or someone that needs access to 20+ yr  
 Data,
 then surely your planning has to account for this? Or maybe another
 solution?

Whatever component is missing (media, drive, computer, etc.) will have  
to be found on eBay.

Once you have the missing component(s), you have to restore the data.  
Once that is done you transfer it to a machine that has a more up-to- 
date backup client and bring it into your regular backup system.

Of course archiving is different than backup (or so it's repeatedly  
said). I've never had to deal with it, so couldn't really talk about  
the differences much.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-19 Thread Lightner, Jeff
We've gone through exercises of saving infinite retention backups of
systems that we know we can't recreate easily (for example there was one
that had a dongle from the vendor required to run the app - we had to
return the dongle to avoid continuing to pay license fees).   The idea
is if you have the data you have a base from which to start.   It's a
lot easier to tell someone wanting ancient data that the technology no
longer exists or is cost prohibitive to recover than to tell them you
didn't bother to back it up in the first place.

 

Also as was mentioned earlier in thread we too have gone through the
exercise of duplicating old media to newer media.   Interestingly
management recently realized how much it was costing to keep things at
Iron Mountain that they no longer knew why they had it except it was
legacy from our big merger years ago.  They pretty much had all of it
returned so it could be destroyed (or in rare circumstance kept).   

 

I would think a client that actually needed 20 years worth of
information (e.g. a bank retaining mortgages) would likely keep that as
current information or in a data warehouse.   One of the things that
came out of the recent housing mess is that there has NOT been much
thought about keeping information long term (even past 7 years) for this
and also information gets lost in the shuffle when the original lender
sells the loan to someone else to service.   Many people have stopped or
delayed foreclosure by using the legal requirement that the financial
institution starting the foreclosure process actually produce the
original records showing they are in fact the owner of the note. 

 



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To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

 

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:20 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external)
simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote:

I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old
kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as
Servers, DDS tape drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones too!! amnd
legacy Unix systems.

Now, what I was puzzled about is how would they go about restoring this
Data?, considering most of the Technology has just been removed /
phased out.

It got me thinking that we have 5 - 10+ year retention of Tapes for
NetBackup on LTO1 tapes but no means of loading it, you do not have high
hopes of restoring it. Unless you obtain an LTO1 drive. But say 30 years
down the line. then what! Chances are, NetBackup may not read it, or
worse No NetBackup environment at all ! (Similar to the client who
was using their own standard 1990's backup software that is no longer
produced and in a format that cannot be read!)

So really, curious how people would protect those essential years of
Data?


There are a lot of 3rd party companies that will gladly take your money
to restore this data.  I suspect they're not cheap for the obvious
reason that they have to maintain this old crap, but that's the price
you pay for restoring stuff you probably shouldn't have been backing up
in the first place.


Even if you get the data physically off of tape, can you actually do
anything with it? Do you even know the name, for example, of the server
that held your financial data 15 years ago?  Even if you had that data,
do have the hardware and software that can actually do anything with
that data?  Are the applications so old that they won't even run on
modern hardware?  Are the data formats so old that today's applications
won't open them either?

Backups are not archives, and you're seeing one of the many reasons why
that's true. 

   .../Ed
 
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-19 Thread Martin, Jonathan

Here when we change tape formats, we duplicate the long term retention
data to the new format.  It's pretty easy with NetBackup, but I suppose
worst case scenario you would have to restore it, then back it up again.
Probably a better question than can I restore the data? is, once
restored, do I still have the application that reads that data? I've
already run into this a few times with older Exchange and Oracle
backups. It's a mess.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-19 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
If you have a drive, you can use tar to read the tapes (little more work if 
they are multiplexed.)
I am in the process of duplicating about 100 SDLT tapes to LTO4's.  - I have 
kept an SDLT tape drive attached to the master because I have long term tapes.  
Once I get the dups done I can get rid of that drive.

Of course you always have to option to find a recovery company that does just 
that, gets data off of old media.

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Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:49 AM
To: 'WEAVER, Simon (external)'; 'Mark Phillips'; 
VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

Well,
netbackup is using tar to write and read to the tape. If you not use 
multiplexing, and you know what is on what tape, then you can restore backups 
without netbackup.

I have come in front of many companies that have 15 years backups and they try 
to find a travan tape drive (or other) and the software to read the tapes.


From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon 
(external)
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:39 AM
To: Mark Phillips; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

Hi Mark
Thanks for this. Yes, this is one method, but what about a backup solution - 
ie: now 20 years out of date, no media, no server to restore to and in a format 
unknown to todays backup systems.

What would you do then?  :-)
the client does not seem bothered, and is happy to destroy the Data. But if you 
are a banking client or someone that needs access to 20+ yr Data, then surely 
your planning has to account for this? Or maybe another solution?

Simon


From: Mark Phillips [mailto:mark.phill...@unisa.edu.au]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:37 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: Retaining Date for 20 years+
Simon,

A couple of years ago we retired DLT IV and LTO1 drives, going to a library 
with LTO4 drives only.
I used bpimmedia to work out which images were on the old media then 
bpduplicate to duplicate all long term retention  images that were on the old 
DLT IV and LTO1 media to LTO3 or LTO4 tapes.

Mark

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(external)
Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2010 3:50 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+


Morning Guys
Not exactly a problem, but a question.
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old kit and 
media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as Servers, DDS tape 
drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones too!! amnd legacy Unix systems.

Now, what I was puzzled about is how would they go about restoring this 
Data?, considering most of the Technology has just been removed / phased out.

It got me thinking that we have 5 - 10+ year retention of Tapes for NetBackup 
on LTO1 tapes but no means of loading it, you do not have high hopes of 
restoring it. Unless you obtain an LTO1 drive. But say 30 years down the 
line. then what! Chances are, NetBackup may not read it, or worse No 
NetBackup environment at all ! (Similar to the client who was using their own 
standard 1990's backup software that is no longer produced and in a format that 
cannot be read!)

So really, curious how people would protect those essential years of Data?

Regards

Simon

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-19 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
True, this could happen, but then it comes back to what do they do with
the Data or how could they read it, if they have just chucked and
disposed of their old equipment, that was running the apps in the first
place?!
 
Begs the question ... Why did they bother !  :( And probably explains
why they are disposing of it now!! So I guess I should leave them to it.



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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+



If you have a drive, you can use tar to read the tapes (little more work
if they are multiplexed.)

I am in the process of duplicating about 100 SDLT tapes to LTO4's.  - I
have kept an SDLT tape drive attached to the master because I have long
term tapes.  Once I get the dups done I can get rid of that drive.

 

Of course you always have to option to find a recovery company that does
just that, gets data off of old media.

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of stefanos
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:49 AM
To: 'WEAVER, Simon (external)'; 'Mark Phillips';
VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

 

Well, 

netbackup is using tar to write and read to the tape. If you not use
multiplexing, and you know what is on what tape, then you can restore
backups without netbackup.

 

I have come in front of many companies that have 15 years backups and
they try to find a travan tape drive (or other) and the software to read
the tapes.  

 

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
Simon (external)
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:39 AM
To: Mark Phillips; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

 

Hi Mark

Thanks for this. Yes, this is one method, but what about a backup
solution - ie: now 20 years out of date, no media, no server to restore
to and in a format unknown to todays backup systems.

 

What would you do then?  :-)

the client does not seem bothered, and is happy to destroy the Data. But
if you are a banking client or someone that needs access to 20+ yr Data,
then surely your planning has to account for this? Or maybe another
solution?

 

Simon

 



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Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:37 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: Retaining Date for 20 years+

Simon,

 

A couple of years ago we retired DLT IV and LTO1 drives, going to a
library with LTO4 drives only.

I used bpimmedia to work out which images were on the old media then
bpduplicate to duplicate all long term retention  images that were on
the old DLT IV and LTO1 media to LTO3 or LTO4 tapes.

 

Mark

 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER,
Simon (external)
Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2010 3:50 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

 

Morning Guys 
Not exactly a problem, but a question. 
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old
kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as
Servers, DDS tape drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones too!! amnd
legacy Unix systems.

Now, what I was puzzled about is how would they go about restoring this
Data?, considering most of the Technology has just been removed /
phased out.

It got me thinking that we have 5 - 10+ year retention of Tapes for
NetBackup on LTO1 tapes but no means of loading it, you do not have high
hopes of restoring it. Unless you obtain an LTO1 drive. But say 30 years
down the line. then what! Chances are, NetBackup may not read it, or
worse No NetBackup environment at all ! (Similar to the client who
was using their own standard 1990's backup software that is no longer
produced and in a format that cannot be read!)

So really, curious how people would protect those essential years of
Data? 

Regards 

Simon 

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