Morning Guys
Not exactly a problem, but a question.
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old
kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as
Servers, DDS tape drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones too!! amnd
legacy Unix systems.
Now, what I was
tapes.
Mark
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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon
(external)
Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2010 3:50 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+
Morning Guys
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+
Morning Guys
Not exactly a problem, but a question.
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old
kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as
Servers, DDS tape
:50 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+
Morning Guys
Not exactly a problem, but a question.
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old kit
and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as Servers
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:20 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external)
simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote:
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old
kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as Servers,
DDS tape drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones
On May 19, 2010, at 02:39, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
Thanks for this. Yes, this is one method, but what about a backup
solution - ie: now 20 years out of date, no media, no server to
restore
to and in a format unknown to todays backup systems.
What would you do then? :-)
the
] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:31 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:20 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external)
simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote:
I started to do work
Here when we change tape formats, we duplicate the long term retention
data to the new format. It's pretty easy with NetBackup, but I suppose
worst case scenario you would have to restore it, then back it up again.
Probably a better question than can I restore the data? is, once
restored, do I
To: 'WEAVER, Simon (external)'; 'Mark Phillips';
VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+
Well,
netbackup is using tar to write and read to the tape. If you not use
multiplexing, and you know what is on what tape, then you can restore backups
without
; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+
If you have a drive, you can use tar to read the tapes (little more work
if they are multiplexed.)
I am in the process of duplicating about 100 SDLT tapes to LTO4's. - I
have kept an SDLT tape drive attached
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