On 2011-01-06 23:00, James Harper wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Anyone doing VirtualFull backups using tapedrives only?
>> Can they shortly describe their setup? pro/con/etc?
>>
> I'm not, but can tell you it's probably not a good idea - you'd end up
> with extra wear and tear on your tape drives, as well as greatly reduced
> performance while the target tape drive waited for data to be read from
> your source tape drive(s).
>
> I do a weekly full to do disk, then 3 x daily incremental to disk, and
> then a virtual full to tape every night (for DR purposes). Disk space is
> cheap, and you could easily build a disk array that could keep your
> tapedrive fed with data for much less than the cost of another tape
> drive (and tapes).

A quick count shows that my current Incremental-Pool holds around 350TB
worth of data, both in terms of cost, infrastructure and handling tapes
are way better at that scale.

If I could cut significantly on the retention times, then a disk solution
might be favorable.

Jesper
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Jesper


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