If we investigate that option further, I'll let folks know what I can. Kurt
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 15:40, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? 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