*sorry for the hijack* You bring up an interesting point with the failure rate issue. Are there any good studies on what is more reliable? Tape, external drives, etc?
My current weekly backup is around 2TB as well, and I use an LTO library with 6 slots. 3 tapes covers my weekly full, and nightly differentials. So far, so good. (Knock on wood...) What is safer for long term archival purposes? Tape or hard drive? On Jul 28, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Sam Cayze wrote: > List pointers: Never say ‘why’ in a question, just ask ‘how’ ;) > > Ok, I think we’ve hammered the bringing data home part… > > The guy wants to know how to get of tapes and back up 2TBs of data > effectively… > I suggest you get a rotation of External Hard Drives, or internal > ones you can put in a dock and a good case for transport. I can’t > imagine how long those tapes take, yet the failure rate associated > with them. Encrypt them, regardless of where they go. I’ve done > trails on my restores and encryption had no effect on restore speed. > > Or, if the data doesn’t change to much, you can backup to the cloud > somewhere. > > Sam > > From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:55 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: backing up too much data > > +1 > > Seems that a wise investment would be a quality fire-resistant safe > big enough to hold a fire resistant lock box > > Erik Goldoff > IT Consultant > Systems, Networks, & Security > ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' > From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:29 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: backing up too much data > > Should he really be taking the data home? That might be opening up > a different can of worms (the likelihood of his copy of the data > getting lost is significantly greater than of all your machines > blowing up) > > If he's so concerned, and you don't want to pay for services like > Iron Mountain (or their less expensive alternatives), then buy a > tape drive for him and make copies of the tapes -- encrypted copies. > > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Holstrom, Don <[email protected]> > wrote: > I have been backing up all our data to tape drives. A vice president > of the Museum likes to take a copy home regularly in case our > machines blow up... > > But now we have nearly two terabytes of data. Tape drives go up to > 1.7 T's, but I can only find libraries going higher. > > What other options do I have, so the VP can still take home a copy > of the data? > > Extra HDs take so much time. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > > > > > Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com [email protected] 248.855.4333 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
