Re: Back Up Best Practices

2008-01-10 Thread Eric E Eskam
Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/10/2008 10:41:13 AM: What is the latest recommendation on back up processes? We have been small enough to do full back ups daily for some time, but now face time issues with that and need to move to a tiered option. Is F-I-I-I-I reasonable

RE: Back Up Best Practices

2008-01-10 Thread Tim Evans
You should always verify and test your backups. (The voice of experience gained the hard way speaking here) ...Tim From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Back Up Best Practices What is the

RE: Back Up Best Practices

2008-01-10 Thread Benjamin Zachary
For clients who don't have time, you should look at d2d2t which is disk to disk to tape You get disk to disk backups after hours, then you can let the tape run throughout the day without affecting files, bandwidth etc. I guess it depends on amount of data and speed of backup system. The LTO

Re: Back Up Best Practices

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew Carpenter
We had BE 11D and an LTO3 autoloader. We do do some D2D prior to tape for our VM image back ups. We should look at possibly doing more of that. On Jan 10, 2008 10:21 AM, Benjamin Zachary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For clients who don't have time, you should look at d2d2t which is disk to disk

RE: Back Up Best Practices

2008-01-10 Thread Benjamin Zachary
] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Back Up Best Practices We had BE 11D and an LTO3 autoloader. We do do some D2D prior to tape for our VM image back ups. We should look at possibly doing more of that. On Jan 10, 2008 10:21 AM, Benjamin Zachary

RE: Back Up Best Practices

2008-01-10 Thread Eric E Eskam
Benjamin Zachary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/10/2008 01:10:36 PM: You could also look at san snapshots too , if you have an iscsi appliance or similar. You can get full snapshots in just a few minutes of terabytes, but then you still have to get that to tape. If your iSCSI device and your