Best practice for backups over the years

[blackjackshellac]

I have some end of year tapes that are on various tape medias dating back to 2000. My question is what do you do everytime the tape drive units change and the server names also change over time. I would like to restore my 24 DLT7 tapes which are 2002 EOY tapes and back them up on my new LTO2 tapes. It would be nice to keep the Server name structures intact but how would that be done. The actual restoring is not an issue as I still have both powervault tape units around but maybe not for long. A promised 7 year retention is becoming a real issue with us.
Thanks in advance

 

[JockFrog]

Hi,

I think you are talking about two different things here.
The retention period is for the data not for the server. If you have to recreate your environment then you will obviously have lots of problems.
I work in a very large pharmaceutical environment and we adapt the data produced by applications to archive them. In other words we archive only flat files, dumps etc and stored on WORM boxes. These can be read easily later with Office applications.

 

[steveot]

If you just trying to move data from one media type to another you could put both types of drives on the system and run duplicate jobs. Or runa dupe job from the old media to backup to disk , then disk to tape or where ever