[ale] Backup strategies

[Stephen Benjamin]

We use a Dell powervault with about 1.5TB and backup once a month to tape
for storage off site.  Works well.  Tapes, if properly maintained (and it
isn't that much maintenance) work just fine.


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>wrote:

> Chris Kleeschulte wrote:
> >
> > I am not crazy about using tapes or having a service come and gather
> > the tapes.
> >
> Why are people so against tapes?  It is cost?  Is it sequential access
> to data?
> It has been a long time since I used tapes.  The primary reason, is that
> I just don't have that much data to backup.    If I did, I would be
> combing the Internet looking for a tap solution that could hold that
> much data.   In the past I've been served well by the QIC-20, 1/4" cart,
> and 4GB DAT tapes.  We rotated them properly, cleaned the heads, and
> even validated the tapes after being written.
>
> a tape drive and a service is an excellent idea.   You can't trust the
> service to be
> secure with your tapes so encrypt the data.
>
>
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