As per Bens comments, this method doesn’t address wear. With tapes as expensive as they are, I at the time I revisited this was looking to reduce tape spend but maximise recoverability windows. Im going to put the feelers out for the spreadsheet a friend came up with that was the closest thing we could get. It was just a bit too complicated. But I would love to see some conversation from it if the outcome was tracking down the original backup solution implemented.
FWIW - I think a beancounter created the tape schedule I saw... -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 26 March 2010 4:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NTbackup Methods On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 04:57, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Greg Wright > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anyone seen anything like that they can explain better than I have? >> Anyone up for the maths challenge to come up with it again?!?! > > Sounds vaguely like Towers of Hanoi, but that doesn't address wear. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_rotation_scheme#Towers_of_Hanoi > > -- Ben > Dang - beat me to it. ~ 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/> ~
