I should add the caveat that I've haven't really dealt with LTO. I've been lucky enough to have always had the "enterprise class" tape drives (and media) on the systems I have looked after - STK 9x40 earlier, now IBM 3592.
After almost 10 years, I can't recall ever having any kind of media related problem with a tape I have recalled from offsite. - Dean On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How long is a piece of string? I don't think there you are going to > find any "norm" in regards to this. It probably just comes down to > what your business feels comfortable with. > > We do a full DR test at least once a year, as the business mandates. > This involves recalling tapes from our offsite storage provider and > recovering from them. This is sufficient for us. > > In addition, perhaps 2 or 3 times a year we have to recall a tape from > offsite to do a specific restore (ie - somebody's mailbox from 4 years > ago). > > - Dean > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:41 AM, McCormick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Bump... >> >> +---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. >> |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> +---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu >> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu >> > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
