[nylug-talk] Recommendations for encrypted tape drive(s)?

[Peter C. Norton]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:18:03PM -0500, Steven Lembark wrote:
> With things like billing data you eventually
> have to, even on EMC's. Monthly images with
> daily/weekly incrementals are the most common
> thing I've seen.
> 
> In most cases you end up with parallel-streaming
> software like veritas that labels and dumps the
> blocks to multiple tapes in order to keep the
> whole process streaming. Just don't loose the
> backup database or the entire backup set is
> junk :-)

In theory you can backup and restore the backup database, too, making
that a situation you can recover from more gracefully.

-Peter

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