OT: Tape less Backup System

[Doug Luurs]

HP VS-80 Library 

Looking at 4 systems (3 windows / SCO Openserver), 2 400G SNAP NAS
units.  Roughly (Max Cap) 2 Tb

The main System will be the one that is Hot Swapped (SCO / FP) out.
(2-4 Drives x 5  - Sounds like a lot, but that is what the boss wants ..
That's what
 the boss gets)

The rest will be Taped more then likely, then moved off-site as we
do atm.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Vermillion [mailto:fp at wjv.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:18 AM
To: Doug Luurs
Cc: filepro-list at seaslug.org
Subject: Re: OT: Tape less Backup System


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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