Author: "WEAVER, Simon \(external\)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:20:27 +0100
Morning Guys Not exactly a problem, but a question. I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as Servers
Author: Mark Phillips <Mark.Phillips AT unisa.edu DOT au>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:07:01 +0930
Simon, A couple of years ago we retired DLT IV and LTO1 drives, going to a library with LTO4 drives only. I used bpimmedia to work out which images were on the old media then bpduplicate to duplicate
Author: "WEAVER, Simon \(external\)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:39:22 +0100
Hi Mark Thanks for this. Yes, this is one method, but what about a backup solution - ie: now 20 years out of date, no media, no server to restore to and in a format unknown to todays backup systems.
Well, netbackup is using tar to write and read to the tape. If you not use multiplexing, and you know what is on what tape, then you can restore backups without netbackup. I have come in front of man
I started to do work for a small firm that has been removing legacy old kit and media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as Servers, DDS tape drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones t
Whatever component is missing (media, drive, computer, etc.) will have to be found on eBay. Once you have the missing component(s), you have to restore the data. Once that is done you transfer it to
Author: "Lightner, Jeff" <jlightner AT water DOT com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:55:34 -0400
We’ve gone through exercises of saving infinite retention backups of systems that we know we can’t recreate easily (for example there was one that had a dongle from the vendor required to
Author: "Martin, Jonathan" <JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:37:16 -0400
Here when we change tape formats, we duplicate the long term retention data to the new format. It's pretty easy with NetBackup, but I suppose worst case scenario you would have to restore it, then ba
If you have a drive, you can use tar to read the tapes (little more work if they are multiplexed.) I am in the process of duplicating about 100 SDLT tapes to LTO4’s. – I have kept an SDLT
Author: "WEAVER, Simon \(external\)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:53:19 +0100
True, this could happen, but then it comes back to "what do they do with the Data or how could they read it, if they have just chucked and disposed of their old equipment, that was running the apps i