[Gllug] offsite backup services

[Ryan Cartwright]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:54:50PM +0000, Ryan wrote:
>> On the basis that the organisation (and thus my storage/backup needs)
>> seems to grow exponentially I feel that simply upping the tape size (as
>> we have done in the past) is no longer practical. I could use external
> 
> Are you trying to fit the entire run onto a single tape?  Invest in a
> tape changer and use backup software that can split an archive over
> mutiple tapes.

Hadn't thought of that. We do perform the backups overnight - I assume a
tape changer will handle unattended (it does like it obviously would but
I wanted to check :o) ).

ta
Ryan
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