Virtual Tape Library is the way to go, zone 3 fiber channels, 2 for SAN redundancy and 1 for VTL. But yes for compliance Iron Mountain can promise a 911 proof tape storage but of course you dont need a terrorist for a bad tape media.
On 5/3/07, Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
magnetic tape backups are still needed for compliance purposes although i wouldn't recommend depending your job _solely_ on it. reminds me of the days that we almost have to endure more than a week of downtime for the tape restoration to finish (while crossing our fingers against the possibility of a failure!). luckily for us, we still have better options back then. ever thought why some companies require a full-time backup operator (even if they're using a tape loader)? :D On 5/2/07, ian sison (mailing list) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .... > What's the common theme amongst this is that the era of tape based > backups are over. > Let's face it. Leveraging your backups on tape may be cheap, but > when it's time > to restore from them, in your most critical hour, experience tells me > they will fail you or at the very least, > make it damn hard for you to restore! In this hot, and humid climate, > unlike disk based backups you never know if the data you wrote to > tape is in fact readable by the time you need it. > > It's a good thing the cost of hard disks have gone down nowadays, and > it's so easy to justify > a raid 1 array of 750GB with several external USB hard disks for > backup purposes. > > - ian > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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