OT: XP SP2 Security Hole / Backup Thread Appended

[D. Thomas Podnar]

: > Why don't you wait for the release of the SCSI REV 10 drive
: > jukebox that I saw at SCO Forum, at Microlite's booth??
: >
: > It is slated to hit the market this month (Tom, correct me
: > if I'm off on the date).
: >
: > Then your co-worker wouldn't have to get all that excersize
: > running up & down the stairs.
: 
: Heh, I'm sure it's already been said several times but...
: 
: Someone still has to change a tape every day. 10 days, or 365 days worth of 
: tapes in a big box that no one ever visits is no good. Unless we can train a 
: dog or carrier pideons or something to fetch tapes between the juke box and 
: someones house every day.
: 
: The juke box would actually make things a litte less convenient by inserting 
: a complication of some sort between your hand and the actual drive.
: 
: So now you've heard it 1000 and one times in case the first 1000 somehow 
: managed to all be unclear. :)

One strategy does not fit all companies, or users. I point this out
only to differentiate the way your company needs to work from what
some other company may need.

Tape (or REV) changers, autoloaders, and libraries have many uses.

At Microlite, or main backups every night are handled by our
Overland Data 4212i library, which uses AIT-2 tape drives.

Each morning at 1:00am, a Master Backup is performed.
Backup/Verify/Index take around 3 hours for ~33GB.
This consumes 5 tapes, one of which is designated for off-site
each week.

At noon each day, another Schedule performs a Differential Backup
against the same Domain and Sequence, to one of five different tapes.
This typically consumes 700-800MB, and takes around 10 minutes total.
Most people here go to lunch at noon, so we see little in the way of
a performance hit.

This gives me half day granularity on my backups, and 10 "snapshot"
points per week if something ever goes horribly wrong with a document
or a database or our source code.

John Esak has a thirty tape library and has some very creative
backups scheduled to protect him.

Tom Podnar