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shamee
Level 5
12 years ago
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Off-Site Tape Rotation

Hi,

I am taking backup as given below. Can you suggest a off-site tape moevement schedule? How should I move tapes to Off-Site? Best practices around off-site.

Daily Incremental Backup - Tapes will be rotated every two weeks

Weekly Full Backup - Tapes will be rotated every four weeks

Regards,

 

2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    12 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Simple...remove the tapes that were used (check the Job Log which can show this or look at a report).

    You then need to keep track of them...if a company does your offsite tape storage, then you'd select a date on which they must be returned.

    if you're storing them "offsite" in a safe for instance, then you'd have to keep manual track via spreadsheet for instance.

    Thanks!

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  • bandit61's avatar
    bandit61
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    We do tape-backup from monday-thursday, overwritten weekly. Friday weekly tape, keep them offsite for 1 year. Every third week, different tape ---> different offsite-store, keep them for 10 year. Annual tape separate one, keep them for 10 year. If tape-drive changes, we inventory the monthly/yearly tapes again.

     

    regards

  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    Moderator
    12 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Simple...remove the tapes that were used (check the Job Log which can show this or look at a report).

    You then need to keep track of them...if a company does your offsite tape storage, then you'd select a date on which they must be returned.

    if you're storing them "offsite" in a safe for instance, then you'd have to keep manual track via spreadsheet for instance.

    Thanks!