Compared to the cost of you data, tape drives are cheap - and also protect aginst 'encryption' type malware.
Sorry if that wasn't clear in the post -- On the disaster recovery tab the path is pointed to a UNC path to one of our physical media servers
Do you also email it to yourself / team with attachments?
Yes, I receive the daily emails w/the corresponding attachments when the catalog backup has successfully completed.
So you could still recover the catalog using the contents of that email.
I belive a lot of people just attach and NFS/CIFS share to their master and drop the catalog backups there. That way you could just mount it to a new server if something happens to the original server. I think giving the catalog its own VMDK is a little much but you could do it.
Thanks so much for the information and reply. Right, compiling those files and emails in the event of a recovery would be possible and I always had another spot to drop the catalog backups was another recovery place to pull the files/data. Agreed, I could attach an RDM from our backend storage array and wasn't sure if that was easier/efficient than attaching a vmdk to the master server and dropping the files there as well. But NFS/CIFS another option to consider.Thanks for the feedback.
