Re: Why Backup To Tape?

2006-05-22 Thread R.S.
John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: Chantal wrote: That was my argument as well. How to do offsite backups. My classmate mentioned the possibility of a remote SAN for companies that already have the infrastructure and bandwidth available to them. I'm really not sure how feasible that is though.

Re: Why Backup To Tape?

2006-05-18 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Chantal wrote: That was my argument as well. How to do offsite backups. My classmate mentioned the possibility of a remote SAN for companies that already have the infrastructure and bandwidth available to them. I'm really not sure how feasible that is though. It is totally feasible. There

Re: Why Backup To Tape?

2006-05-18 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
We can't afford the bandwidth to have a DISK/SAN offsite to do backups for DR and we really don't have that much production DASD (1.5-2 TB of production data). If you are backing up to DISK/SAN on site what do you do for DR? If you site is damaged: fire, water, earthquake, plane, ect. Then b