[CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?

[Richard Mancusi]

This is a very site specific question.  How often are you required to restore?
How quickly are you expected to complete your restore?  How far back is it
expected that you have retained data onsite and off?

Offsite storage is very important as an archive - but fairly useless for
quick recovery unless it is near.

I am forced to rotate 15 EOD backups AND I rotate a special weekend
backup offsite for each of my servers.  Call it a bad environment if you wish.
I call it go with the flow.

Rich


On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:52:35 -0600, David L. Willson
<dlwillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> OK, I'm no newbie, and I find myself asking the same damn question every
> time I get into the Backup & Disaster Recovery design process.  Why does any
> business with less than a TB of data to backup use tapes?  Why, why, why,
> when almost any fixed disk media is much cheaper and almost as easy to take
> offsite?
> 
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