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

2010-05-19 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
du.au; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 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 a

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

2010-05-19 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
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

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

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

2010-05-19 Thread Lightner, Jeff
as-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:31 AM 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) wrote: I star

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 solution - ie: now 20 years out of date, no media, no server to 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

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 kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as Servers, 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 o

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

2010-05-19 Thread stefanos
: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 Se

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

2010-05-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
: 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

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

2010-05-18 Thread Mark Phillips
tapes. Mark From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [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

[Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+

2010-05-18 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
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 p