@Khapitain, I think you're misinterpreting the use of the word "charges" here. He means what criminal charges would apply, not what UPS would charge for delivery!
Posts by Neil Murphy
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Reel talk: You know what's safely offline? Tape. Data protection outfit Veeam inks deal with Quantum
Wednesday 15th August 2018 08:57 GMT
Re: Safe until ...
DAT?? Sony stopped making DAT recorders 13 years ago. SDLT was finished as a format after 2006. LTO is really the only medium used these days. Having said all that, I will concede that LTO-8 drives have introduced an issue when it comes to backward compatibility. This is from the Wikipedia entry - "Up to and including LTO-7, an Ultrium drive can read data from a cartridge in its own generation and the two prior generations. LTO-8 drives can read LTO-7 and LTO-8 tape, but not LTO-6 tape". So if you have an LTO-8 drive you won't be able to use it to read LTO-6 tapes that you may have been using until quite recently. So you just hang on to that old LTO-6 drive until your data retention period (5/7 years or whatever company policy says) expires. Or do what a lot of people do and enlist the services of a data recovery specialist. Nothing new here!
Tuesday 14th August 2018 15:22 GMT
Re: Safe until ...
As a rebuttal:
A: The idea here is that tape is offline and so is less likely to be affected by ransomeware. If you have a properly configured retention policy then the likelihood that you would overwrite the last backup with an encrypted copy would be remote. And the tape copy would be a secondary copy of the backup kept on disk - that's the way Veeam works with tape.
B: Physical security is the responsibility of every sysadmin. If someone steals your tapes its your fault, you can't blame the tape!
C:The old tapes in your cupboard are there for compliance reasons, not for for restores. And if they are so old that you can't use them in your new tape library then they should have been thrown out years ago anyway. Remember that tape drives are always backwardly compatible with the last few versions of the media.
D: The whole point of tape as part of a backup regime is to have multiple copies of your backups. Veeam recommends using a 3-2-1 rule - 3 copies of data using 2 different media with on copy being stored offsite. Look at this for further details: https://bit.ly/2GOXYOp
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