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Re: [Networker] Budgeting for tape media
2008-01-15 07:58:04
On Jan 14, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Werth, Dave wrote:
Stan,
Can you use history to help you? Go back a year and say this is
probably what I would have recommended at the start of 2007 but then
this happened and this happened so we ended up actually needing this
much. If they're forcing you to forecast for a year out then are they
forcing the people who would be adding this storage or servers to do
the
same thing? If so maybe it would help to look at their forecasts.
I have never had enough disk space or time to track that information
on my NetWorker server. Our backup retention period is three months.
No one in any other department (or even my own) is required to provide
projections on data growth. I just emailed my boss and asked him if we
could at least buy one new tape cartridge per new server added this
fiscal year. We do charge each department a fee each time they add a
new server onto our nightly backup schedule and that fee is supposed
to include the cost of new tape media, so I figured it couldn't hurt
to actually use that money.
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