I do about a 50% disk based backups, then it's written to tape. I have a planned "retirement" of approximately 5 - 10 uses on LTO3 tapes, then they become permanent tapes stored at our off-site storage facility.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Roger Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you do about off-site storage of your backups? > > > > Roger Wright > Network Administrator > Evatone, Inc. > 727.572.7076 x388 > _____ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Monaghan [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:06 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: When to retire LTO3 tapes > > We always watched the physical failure rates on the tapes. When a tape > started to get a few, we retired it out of production. Don't forget you > also > have age issues to deal with along with the number of writes and the types > of > writes. > > We are also glad that we went to disk based backups about a year ago and we > have never looked back or been happier. > > > > Felis demulcta mitis ... > Alan G. Monaghan > [ MCSE+I - Win4.0/ MCSE - Win2k/ BJCP # C0389(Recognized) Ò¿Ó¬ ] > Systems Administrator > Gardner Publications, Inc. > > *Phone ...... 1-513-527-8867 > *Fax ........ 1-513-527-8801 > *Cell ....... 1-513-378-0919 > *E-mail ..... [email protected] > *URL ........ http://Bullwinkle.GardnerWeb.Com/ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
