OT: Tape less Backup System

[Bill Vermillion]

In the last exciting episode of the filePro saga, 
Doug Luurs was heard to say:" 
if: Fri, Jan 21 11:06  
then: nm = Doug Luurs 
if:
then: show nm < "said:"  
Doug Luurs said: 

> It's more Statistics then them Actually failing (Which I have not had
> any do yet).

So what tape drives are you using?

> The System would allow me to do Tape Backups plus the ability to pull
> the drives for offsiting.
> (Hotswap)

So you would have a duplicate set of drives - their big unit
has 24 SATA drives - and take a set off-site each week?

How much data are you backing up?


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Vermillion [mailto:fp at wjv.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:04 AM
> To: Doug Luurs
> Cc: filepro-list at seaslug.org
> Subject: Re: OT: Tape less Backup System
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21 10:43 , while impersonating an expert on the internet, 
> Doug Luurs sent this to stdout: 
> 
> > We current do all our backups to tape, and it seems to be getting more
> 
> > and more Costly every time I need more tape space. (And tapes being 
> > prone to failure more Often then not)
> 
> If you have business interuption insurance be sure to check your
> policies on data backup.  I had one client who would never make tapes
> for off-site storage until he read his policy and found 
> that losses that were because of lost data were NOT covered unless the
> data was stored off-site too.
> 
> If you have a policy like that even using the hard disk data storage
> devices means they should be off-site.
> 
> What tape systems are you using that fail so often? I only
> ask because I was practically raised on tape in broadcasting, recording,
> and computers, and good systems seem to run until you do run out of
> space.
> 
> Bill
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