On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:40:28 +0000, Phil Cook wrote:

> And lo on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:10:27 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
> spake, saying:
> 
>> Invisible wrote:
>>
>>> [I imagine this one is going to be dictated to me by HQ, but I'm
>>> curios...]
>>
>> Yah, I was right. They're sending us an LTO-1 robotic library.
> 
> That's a shame I thought they were going to suggest using 5 (or 7) hot
> swap drives and mirroring them each day before archiving them off to
> tape.
> 
> It all depends on what level of back-up you require. Heh my favourite is
> a company that used the grandfather/father/son system of backups, but
> reused the tapes. So Day 1: GF, Day 2: F, Day 3: S, Day 4: GF etc. I'm
> sure you can all see the problem.

Palindrome?

That's one package that used GFS backup strategies - it can work, of 
course, as long as your tape rotation is appropriate to retaining the 
full backups.

Jim

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