Re: Backups to Tape?

Robert,

    With tape backups, you have several added avenues for restoration/recovery. By keeping a history of tapes, you can return to any point in time within the retention period of the tapes. Just because the file copy completed without error does not mean you can read the files on disk. If your prod server and DR server are not physically separated, you run the risk of losing both of them and the db along with it. Tapes are much easier to remove and store offsite.

    To me it is a small price to pay to have an additional version of your production backup. Ideally, you always recover from your DR server. However, having that additional line of recovery would be a job saver in case of a catastrophic failure or an unfortunate set of events.

Dan Fink

Freeman Robert - IL wrote:

>I'm currently involved in a discussion about the virtues of backups to disk
>AND to tape of production databases. I'm for the idea, and there are others
>who are only wanting to backup to disk, and want to depend on our DR server
>for any other recovery requirement. I'm looking for your thoughts on this
>topic. Anyone want to contribute some good reasons to g ahead and backup to
>tape anyway?
>
>RF
>
>

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