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Re: [Networker] Protecting specific volumes / pools
2006-09-13 13:08:29
On Sep 13, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Werth, Dave wrote:
Steve,
If it's important enough you might want to look into WORM (Write
Once Read
Many) technology for these backups. That would insure the media
could never
be overwritten regardless of attempts to do so but it can be
appended until
the media is full. I'm not too familiar with it but Sony makes an
AIT WORM
drive and of course CD's and DVD's can be WORM as well.
If you're keeping the backups for 7 years it's unlikely that you
will want
to reuse the media after that anyway. One other thing, I think
you'd want
to do something to keep track of these backups that is independent of
Networker just to make sure that changes in your backup solution
don't cause
you to lose that information
Dave, you bring up an interesting point. This topic underscores the
need for all of us to make our respective management aware of the
distinction between backups and archives. This is a point I am
constantly reminding my colleagues about.
I point out that our backups serve one and only one purpose: to
recover a server in the event of a disaster with minimal data loss.
Those who want to implement an archive solution, need to look at
options other than traditional backup technologies, as you suggested.
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