From: Johan D. <jd...@ab...> - 2004-02-20 13:43:13
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Hi Alan, The streamer is the only way to access those tapes. If we rent/loan/purchase another drive, of course we would once again be able to read them. But there is no incentive to do that anymore. We found a better way of taking care of our backups. (Thanks Kern & Co). Provided those DVD+R media remain readable over time. (We will follow up on that and test them regularly), We will be able to go back in time from now on. Maybe it's not realistic of us to expect such a streamer to keep working for more than 3 years. But if that's true, I believe we found a cheaper way of handling things from now on. (And more accessible too). Restoring from tape was always a very time consuming process (in two or three steps, keeping one waiting while the tape was brought to the right location to retrieve its contents. On top of that one had to be very careful to not forget to put the right tape for the night in, after doing a restore). Now the recent backups are still sitting on disk on the backup server and the older ones can easily be copied back on, relatively quickly. The recent backups are more complete, whereas what goes onto DVD+R is the more essential stuff. Bacula gives us the opportunity to organize that, exactly the way we want it. Johan From: Alan Brown <aj...@ms...> on 20/02/2004 12:06 GMT To: Johan Decock/Abis@Abis cc: bac...@li... Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] wanted: Open Source disk to disk backup for Windows On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Johan Decock wrote: > We don't have tapes anymore. The streamers seem to be letting us down > every three years or so. Leaving us with a bunch of useless tapes. Why are the tapes useless? Because you can't get another tape drive? I'm not trying to make fun of you. I just want to find out why people find tapes are a problem. FWIW we always buy our tape drives with 3 year maintenance contracts. If one fails, it's replaced the next day and at the end of the drive's life (usually 3-4 years) we migrate all the existing media to the new format. This leads to a lot of old stuff laying round - we have 1900bpi open reels for-instance, but the data on them is already recovered. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bac...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABIS Training & Consulting website: http://www.abis.be - e-mail: tra...@ab... tel: Belgium: (+32)-16-245610 - The Netherlands: (+31)-348-435570 fax: Belgium: (+32)-16-245691 - The Netherlands: (+31)-348-432493 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |