![]() £100 worth of tapes is all I need to recover from a nuke dropped over my city Most people I talk to will pull tapes and store them in a secure off site location. Now off to solve what happens when EVERYTHING is kept offsite (tape and cloud) for 10+ years and costs skyrocket! It's a combination of best of breed technologies and practices that will get you the right protection for your data for the right price. $800 and about 2 weeks later Iron Mountain uploaded the contents to a secure FTP servers for us and we were able to avoid a multi-million dollar copyright claim. ![]() We has a case a few years ago where someone in Legal sent us a 4MM DAT tape labeled as NT Backup from the mid 90s and asked for us to recover intellectual property data from it. As everyone is saying ensure you test restores from tape on a regular basis (and document it for the auditors) then you can have confidence in your ability to recover the data if it ever becomes necessary.Īnd if you're worried about having to keep up with the media type lifecycle, there are partners (like Iron Mountain, big surprise) that offer access to legacy hardware and applications to pull data. Then you do archival of data no longer needed for production work but needed for compliance/contractual obligations from your primary datacenter(s) to tape for those 5+ year retention. Use your favorite flavor of disk-based backup onsite, with another copy either in another internal site or cloud but only for that short term (60-90 days) where 99% of actual restores are done (strongly recommend using immutable for that 2nd offsite copy). ![]() Iron Mountain) for ARCHIVAL storage, not short-term backups. ![]() What people need to consider, IMO, is using tape media stored in a secure offsite location (i.e. None of these problems exist with disk backups. You're going to have to find and buy a tape drive to restore your tapes when your office gets nuked. If you aren't keeping a fresh tape drive with your tapes you're backing up. Why add another day or two to your downtime in the event you need to do a restore? Sure it's great to understand how they work if you ever need them, but they're barely a viable option anymore in my opinion. I don't brag about my years of using tape backups on my resume. I don't get hired based on the mainframe experience I got in college. I'd say they don't have outdated technical proficiency. That means slower to to backup, slower to restore, slower to test if it's a viable, recoverable backup.Īs a 53 year old with 31 years in IT, I think tapes are shit in most cases, part of the reason is because they're harder to use by people who don't know "true disaster recovery" as you call it. £100 worth of tapes is all I need to recover from a nuke dropped over my city, is there anything else better/safer/cheaper out there that I am missing? So here is my question, if tapes are apparently so untrendy, how do you airgap your backups? I asked that and usually I hear about how old and outdated technology it is, how nobody uses it anymore, but when I ask in response how else can you airgap your backup and have multiple copies of it, I never get a straight answer. Usually when I talk with other fellow IT sysadmins, or MSPs about this strategy they are usually impressed until I touch the tapes subject, then I usually get smirk as a reaction. Quarterly go off-site to company's office in a different city. On top of that, we also do weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual backups onto LTO6/7 tapes which go to two separate fire-proof safes. First copy goes on two NASes in one building, and backup copy job goes onto single larger NAS in another separate building.
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