On 31 Aug 2006 at 11:33, Alexander Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi List, > > we've to plan a backup, which cause some "headache"... > > To backup 2 TB of data. The data/tapes should be available for 15 years.
Include in the plan, tape verification and/or migration. Two reasons: software changes, so you need to verify that you can grab the data. Tape quality deteriorates. You need to check that. > Full backup every sunday, inc daily. > > > In my opion it' s no good idea to set the retention time to 15 years. > That will blow up the database and will "kill" the perfomance. > I thought I will set the retention time to 30 days (or max 90 days). With the data verification, the md5 values in the database will be valuable in checking the data on the tape. > If needed, I will import the tapes again. > > But the experience of restores shows some strange memories of our > clients... For example I had to restore a very important file, which was > used nearly every day... but this files was delete more than 30 days > before the loss was detected. > > I can't belief that there will be clear instructions and details in case > of a restore. Write them. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
