Veritas Backup to Disk

[bigjohn8210]

I'm looking for a backup solution for 2 servers and i was thinking of veritas 11D with veritas support tired of dell crap support for veritas.


I want to buy a new server with an LTO2 Drive

Backup to disk for both server to the new server and also a backup to disk also for both servers.


Has anyone restored from a backup to disk and what was the % of success


thanks

 

[efector]

B2D works great and its a WHOLE lot quicker than trying to pull down tapes. We backup about 700GB of data daily. We switched to B2D M-F, and then run those jobs to tape on the weekends. The probability of failure these days on disk is much lower than tape failure.

 

[k3n85]

Yeah, I know we do a lot of backup to tapes and is really a pain in butt sometimes, but have yet to have one B2D fail ... and yea it's a bit quicker.

We have the tapes for it so that is why we use them. I'd rather go buy another drive for the SAN and do like 'efector'

 

[bigjohn8210]

you stil? need tapes for offsite backup that's just life although disk tapes have just been released

 

[felixx]

right now im just using B2D to a RAID1 setup. the tape drive is not being used but i guess ill get around to using it again. I retired it about 2 months ago.

 

[CoreyWilson]

Felixx,

What about having a viable offsite alternative to restore from in the case of a natural disaster, human error or theft? Unexpected and unavoidable circumstances always do arise. I dont think I would be putting all of my eggs in one basket.

We also run backups to disk daily and duplicate our weekend fulls to tape for offsite storage.

 

[felixx]

Corey,
To be honest, when I started this job I had to teach myself this program and figure out the fastest way to get the back up organized here. Hence finding this site

I went to B2D because I was getting confused on how the tape drive worked in regards to rotation etc.

We have a Dell Powervault 122T that uses DLTtape IV tapes. BE has the robotic info, im just needing to research that still.

Right now I have a great schedule for the B2D. I do a weekly, daily and a monthly (every 4th sunday of a month)

But Lately I have been in the field a lot and there isnt anyone here to change tapes.

If you have any suggestions I would be totally open. I agree that having tapes to back up the backup is a great idea. its just a matter of implementing.