Re: comfort level in not performing TAPE backups...

[Gqcy <gmufasa01@xxxxxxxxx>]

nightly around 300 to 400 GB...
weekly around 400 to 500 GB...


On 4/24/2014 2:48 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> Once a month for system backup is probably fine.
>
> As long as you trust your nightly/weekly backups to SAN and can handle restoring data there's no reason to do weekend tape saves unless you have a doomsday scenario where all systems get wiped out :-)
>
> How much data do you backup nightly and weekly ?
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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> message: 6
> date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:14:36 -0500
> from: Gqcy<gmufasa01@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: comfort level in not performing TAPE backups...
>
> I have re-composed this email several times now...
> it kept winding up as a pro - con list...
>
> Our IT shop (mostly windows servers, with a small IBM i) has been
> working away from tape for some time.
> 3 years ago we stopped our nightly IBM i backups to physical tape, and
> went to a product that exported save files to SAN. we did physical tape
> spins on the weekend...
>
> we are now in a full HA/DR protection scenario, and are progressing to
> performing our nightly backups on the DR box, NOT the source box...
> I am ok with this...
>
> Now, I am being tasked to stop the weekend tape spins now as well,
> except for a "month end" full system save tape to be done on Source system.
>
> I need to ask....
> Am I going too far down the trail getting away from tape on the IBM i?