The IronMountain DPM stuff was pricey when I talked to them three years ago. Would be curious to hear if it's come down at all.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS DPM Opinions I understand that there's a paradumb shift [sic], and that we'll have some re-thinking to do. We had TSM in-house, and it's a lot closer to DPM than it is to Ultrabac. So, generally speaking, how does one achieve monthly/quarterly/yearly offsite backups using DPM? Is there a method to synthesize a point-in-time archive for archival and/or DR/BC purposes? Depending on price, we might also look at sending data over the wire to someone like Iron Mountain, rather than using tapes, though that could be problematic in a true DR/BC incident. Kurt On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 13:03, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > That's not the way it works. :-P > > DPM originally makes a bit-for-bit copy of the "thing" to be backed up. After > that, only changed blocks are backed up. That's on disk. Generally, I see > 50-60 generations of files being kept by clients. > > You can do a tape dump of the full image but that's not really the way DPM is > designed to work. It takes a slightly different perspective than traditional > backup products. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:08 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: MS DPM Opinions > > To further this conversation - what multiple of disk space does DPM have > available vs. the disk consumed in production, and what kind of history do > you keep? > > We're contemplating moving from Ultrabac and a tape robot to DPM, and are > currently doing a standard Grandparent/Parent/Child tape rotation with a 5 > year retention for the archive. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:26, Bob Fronk <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have been using DPM for about two years now. No complaints. I do >> not use removable media, so I cannot comment on those posts. (I use >> a secondary DPM server at another geographic site to assure offsite >> backup of the primary DPM server) >> >> >> >> If you have specific questions, you know a couple ways to contact me >> J >> >> >> >> BF >> >> >> >> >> >> From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:33 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: MS DPM Opinions >> >> >> >> Heh, any of you guys have any opinions good or bad about DPM? Any >> gotchas I should know about, etc? I'm ordering a server today to be >> the backup repository for the VMs and physical machines that DPM will be >> backing up. >> >> Thanks, >> >> James >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
