.....as well as what's being backed up. It might be a SQL DB that the business unit wants backed up twice daily for faster recovery purposes. Most places I've worked at did the 2-week rotation, with a perm monthly tape like you mentioned.
A lot of factors to take into consideration, involving other BUs and mgmt. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv [email protected] Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com <http://www.fiserv.com/> From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 9:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Tape backup policies That's really a question for your management. Your business type and other laws/guidelines will tell you how long you need to keep your data, the media it's put on is irrelevant. When we were still backing up to tape we did a daily full backup 4 week rotation with a month end and then kept the year end forever. ________________________________ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 8:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Tape backup policies Hello everyone. For those who are still backing up to tape... What do you guys have for tape backup policies? I'm curious as to how far back you are keeping tapes - 1 year? 5 years? I've typically seen a 10 tape rotation w/ a monthly tape put in offsite storage. Is this still common practice? . ~ 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
