> No one has told us that the two backup runs have to be the same. Consider yourself fortunate. At least one of our clients has to be able to swear in (possibly international) courts that the two are written simultaneously and are identical to the extent of technical feasibility. It's a huge PITA.
(On the other hand, given what they do, I can't say I object much at all that they have to be *really* careful. 'nuff said. ) > The other advantage of separate onsite and offsite backup jobs is that > your onsite backups aren't held up when your channel extension equipment > is down. Very true. Depending on how smart your scratch exits are, you can fall back on generating local volumes and adding them to the remote series, then shipping the physical tapes ASAP. VMTAPE is really good at coping with that. > I'm certainly not advocating BLP. Me either. It's on one set of auditors immediate fail checklist. 8-)
