They only keep the tapes a month. Oops. Further, the backups have been failing since we rebuilt the thing (not that there's owt on it anyway anymore, that I couldn't rebuild in a couple of hours)
That is a little scary - at the least you should have yearly backups. I've been asked to recover stuff from our yearly backups made three years ago before now!
Years ago when I ran the backup system we did incrementals every night, a full every week, and kept last week's last month's last quarter's and last year's. But then we only had approx 100 relatively small Novell servers. Now there's a shedload of BFO boxes of all kinds of OSs, and they reckon they just don't have the tapes or the psace to store them. I blame the management.
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Date: 2006-02-02 04:00 pm (UTC)Oops.
Further, the backups have been failing since we rebuilt the thing (not that there's owt on it anyway anymore, that I couldn't rebuild in a couple of hours)
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Date: 2006-02-03 01:41 am (UTC)That is a little scary - at the least you should have yearly backups. I've been asked to recover stuff from our yearly backups made three years ago before now!
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Date: 2006-02-03 11:12 am (UTC)Now there's a shedload of BFO boxes of all kinds of OSs, and they reckon they just don't have the tapes or the psace to store them.
I blame the management.