Like I mentioned before, setup the policy to do in-line tape copy,
write at (least) two copies of the data to two separate volume pools
and then store the tapes in different locations.


On 5/17/06, Hindle, Greg <Greg.Hindle AT constellation DOT com> wrote:
> Can you elaborate how you do this in your environment?
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> Greg
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> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz.backup AT gmail DOT com]
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> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Data retentions
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> Any data you need to keep for > 1 year, I would make sure you are using
> in-line tape copy and writing to at least 2 different sets of tapes, the
> backup won't help if a tape goes bad.
>
> On 5/17/06, Hindle, Greg <Greg.Hindle AT constellation DOT com> wrote:
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> >
> > With all this talk about retentions, full vs. differentials vs.
> cumulative.
> > Most of our policy's here get daily differentials which are kept for 2
>
> > weeks, weekly fulls which are kept for 1 month. Some of our servers
> > get a monthly full which is kept for a year and our Sox servers get a
> > quarterly full which is kept for 3 years. Does anyone see any problems
>
> > with this setup? We are just about ready to start a policy condensing
> > project where we will use policy's based on data retentions and
> > hopefully cut the number of policy's we have by 70%. But we are also
> > revisiting how long we keep data as well. Suggestions / Thoughts?
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