Re: [Veritas-bu] How to implement a 24 hour RPO with a traditional backup system.

2010-07-16 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Dean dean.de...@gmail.com wrote: Silver is 24 hours. The large majority of our backup clients fall into this category. Silver class is all based on tape backup/recovery. It's the traditional overnight backup to tape (or disk, VTL, whatever) fulls on the

Re: [Veritas-bu] How to implement a 24 hour RPO with a traditional backup system.

2010-07-16 Thread Dean
Thank you all for the responses. We do already offer a Bronze service class, which is basically best-effort. But most of the systems fall into this 24 hour Silver category. Doing daily differential incrementals then synethetic backups wouldn't really change the fact that in the worst case, our

[Veritas-bu] How to implement a 24 hour RPO with a traditional backup system.

2010-07-15 Thread Dean
Hi folks, This is in no way NetBackup specific, but I'm wondering if some of the smart people on this mailing list might have some thoughts. The company I work for have several service classes for Disaster Recoverability, mainly based on RPO (Recovery Point Objective). RPO refers to the amount