Author: rorycl <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:19:24 -0400
I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. Apologies in advance if you see this twice. Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of backup data of b
Hello, Great, let's start a cross-list flame war ;-) Welcome here anyway ;-) Meaning that the monthly backups can get rather big, even if you don't do full backups each time... or are you planning to
Author: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists AT ralfgross DOT de>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:08:57 +0200
rorycl schrieb: If you want to keep the data 12 years, you may have to copy these LTO-4 tapes to a next generation LTO-X media during that time. The durability of LTO-4 tapes is up to 30 years - in t
Author: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:12:02 -0400
For anything archived I usually make 2 copies and at one time it was 2 copies using 2 different tape drive technologies but both my DLT-IV drives died so its only LTO2 for now. John -- Let Crystal R
Judging from my experience with CD-Rs there is a high chance that the disc will become unreadable within 12 years unless kept in a cool, dark environment (on a shelf in an office isn't good enough) W
What do the SMART stats from those tapes look like? LTO has separate read and write heads. The technology verifies what's been written a few ms after it's been written and the drive will rewrite any
Author: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists AT ralfgross DOT de>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:19:44 +0200
Alan Brown schrieb: smartctl showed different error. Most of the time we saw media errors in syslog during backup. Our vendor used VeriTape (http://www.mptapes.com/) to check the tapes. They had a "V