David, This is why we moved to online archives only. It requires more disk space and periodic review, but disk space is cheap and so is my time! We had DDS1 tapes written in Palindrome Network Archivist, some from the late 80's or so, we had DDS2, DDS3, DDS4, DLTIV, DLT S320 and now DLTS4. We even had some archive CD's that could not be read, lucky we had offsite copies of the CD's which were readable. I guess I can't store them on my dashboard :-).
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:32 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not do a one-time restore of really old backups to your newer backup > medium? That way you can always use your current SW for a restore from any > time frame. > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Leone [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 9:25 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Tape backup policies > > On 6/3/2011 9:53 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Here is something I don't recall being discussed... > > > > LTO1 may be read by an LTO3 drive. Our LTO3 tapes supposedly can be > > read by our new LTO5 drive... > > > > What I'm getting at is, keeping "forever" may require moth-balling > > machines so they can be read if necessary.... > > Or drives .. I have a stand-alone SDLT320 and stand-alone SDLT600 tape > drive, attached to a server other than my current backup server, > specifically for the reason of reading old tapes. > > It becomes more aggravating when I need an old ArcServe tape, instead of > more current Networker. That's why I have a separate machine that is a > Networker storage ndoe, that also has ArcServe installed on it. So I can > start whichever backup program I need, to do restores. > > ~ 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
