Ya I thought about that too but there is a potential media management
nightmare lurking here.. suppose you have a few of these "critical clients"
that you do this to. How often do you create backupsets? Daily? Are you then
going to ship a complete set of tapes offsite and bring the old ones onsite
daily (thus emulating having 1 copy of 'active' data offsite daily)? There
are potential costs lurking here in how often you have the offsite vault
bring tapes back I would guess..

Also you end up with 1 tape or set of tapes per server. So if you have an
LTO tape that holds 100GB native and your "critical client" only has 3GB of
OS data stored on it, your not using the total capacity of the tape. Though
you may or may not care that you're wasting space this way.. The number of
tapes you ultimately use for this system may be more then simply moving all
data offsite (if you're trying to save on the # of tapes you have to ship
offsite).

All in all it might be a solution though it's not very eloquent and whether
it does what you're ultimately trying to accomplish is questionable (i.e.
saving on # of tapes you have to ship offsite?)

Gerald Wichmann
Sr. Systems Development Engineer
Zantaz, Inc.
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