Ha ha. I never do Diff. Always do fulls. Just happen to have the tape space and equipment to do so.
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:45 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: Tape rotation best practices Whew! I was starting to wonder about you! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Esgro Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 1:40 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: Tape rotation best practices Yeah my mistake diff for faster restores incremental to save tape space. Had it backwards. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:36 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: Tape rotation best practices Oh god, I hate incremental....restores are a nightmare -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Esgro Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 12:24 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: Tape rotation best practices Why differential? Why not incremental? It is a heck of a lot easier to restore with. -----Original Message----- From: David Strome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:07 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: Tape rotation best practices Brings up another point that I'm interested in.. We currently keep all tapes offsite except for the current day's set. We have an extremely simple rotation. M-W differential, overwritten weekly. Thurs and Fri are full, overwritten every five weeks. What do other orgs do? How do you balance data retention against liability? We have a policy that states data not on disk has a lifespan of five weeks...to avoid the Microsoft horror. Too short? I'm also wondering if more indepth backup rotations are useful in a smaller org like us...we typically back up about 150 gigs a week. Or are we still good with with diff/normal on a weekly basis? And does anyone else notice that the day after a backup fails, someone asks for a restore? How the heck to you get around that without having a parallel backup system doing the same backups? -----Original Message----- From: Hunter, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:57 AM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: RE: Off site backups Sounds like he read a blurb in a magazine. Does he really mean hire someone to TAKE backups or does he just want you to establish a tape rotation whereby most of your tapes are offsite at all times? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 1:34 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: Off site backups in lieu of sept 11th our CFO has asked me to research companies that do off site backups of client networks... I assume that a company comes in puts a node on your network and a T circuit and pulls backups off that way ove the internet? does anyone know what I am talking about?? if so does anyone know of or recommend a company that does this our backups are about 40 GB ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
