Re: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+
2010-05-19 02:37:08
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 all long term retention images that were on the
old DLT IV and LTO1 media to LTO3 or LTO4 tapes.
Mark
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Simon (external)
Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2010 3:50 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retaining Date for 20 years+
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media as its 15+ years out of date (example: PC's acting as Servers, DDS tape
drives, 3M Data Cartridges, (mini ones too!! amnd legacy Unix systems.
Now,
what I was puzzled about is "how would they go about restoring this
Data?", considering most of the Technology has just been removed / phased
out.
It
got me thinking that we have 5 - 10+ year retention of Tapes for NetBackup on
LTO1 tapes but no means of loading it, you do not have high hopes of restoring
it. Unless you obtain an LTO1 drive. But say 30 years down the line..... then
what! Chances are, NetBackup may not read it, or worse.... No NetBackup
environment at all ! (Similar to the client who was using their own standard
1990's backup software that is no longer produced and in a format that cannot
be read!)
So
really, curious how people would "protect" those essential years of
Data?
Regards
Simon
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