On 2011-01-06 23:00, James Harper wrote: >> Hi >> >> Anyone doing VirtualFull backups using tapedrives only? >> Can they shortly describe their setup? pro/con/etc? >> > I'm not, but can tell you it's probably not a good idea - you'd end up > with extra wear and tear on your tape drives, as well as greatly reduced > performance while the target tape drive waited for data to be read from > your source tape drive(s). > > I do a weekly full to do disk, then 3 x daily incremental to disk, and > then a virtual full to tape every night (for DR purposes). Disk space is > cheap, and you could easily build a disk array that could keep your > tapedrive fed with data for much less than the cost of another tape > drive (and tapes).
A quick count shows that my current Incremental-Pool holds around 350TB worth of data, both in terms of cost, infrastructure and handling tapes are way better at that scale. If I could cut significantly on the retention times, then a disk solution might be favorable. Jesper -- Jesper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
