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Re: [Networker] Disk Backup Advice
2006-12-12 10:10:14
Thanks for the feedback.
Siobhán Ellis wrote:
So, you are going to backup systems across the network to a network mounted
disk farm. Therein lies a problem!
Then you are going to clone (not stage?) to tape by pulling the data across
the network again?
The networker server is here in our data center, and the disk farm is at an
off-site data center connected via a dedicated GigE link - so no extra traffic
on our production network.
My basic question is, why are you going to backup to disk?
Faster restores, off-site disaster recovery. And re: cloning vs. staging, I want
to keep the disk backups as long as possible (at least a month) to facilitate
restores. It is my understanding that staging will remove the savesets from the
disk when they are staged to tape. From reading the list, I gathered that many
prefer the manual scripted cloning option than Networker's built-in staging. Of
course, the separate retention times for clones vs. originals in 7.3 would help,
but that would mean upgrading to 7.3 which does not seem to get high marks here.
ajs
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