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08-22-2011 11:10 AM
08-22-2011 11:10 AM
Let's say I have two rx computers. They are both hooked to a common, big fibre emc array. I have about 500 gigs of data. How do I back it up?
I know WHY I back it up. 1. disaster recovery. 2. restore a file that was deleted 9 months earlier.
Now I can see some type of disk cloning or mirror imaging would help take care of reason number 1. But what about number 2?
Assuming I have no tape drive I would use ignite net recovery setup on both servers correct? But if both get toasted at the same time, I really couldn't restore an ignite image that is pulled over the network from a dead computer.
How do people back up and restore their computers?
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08-22-2011 12:15 PM - edited 08-22-2011 12:44 PM
08-22-2011 12:15 PM - edited 08-22-2011 12:44 PM
Solution>But what about number 2?
If these are user files, this is done by a tool other than Ignite. You could back up to disk.
See this board:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Virtual-Tape-Solutions/bd-p/itrc-616
>I would use ignite net recovery setup on both servers correct?
For system files, yes.
>But if both get toasted at the same time, I really couldn't restore an ignite image that is pulled over the network from a dead computer.
The files are not really on a computer, they are on a disk array. If you can import this disk array onto a new computer, you can recover from there. You should make sure you practice this.
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08-22-2011 01:02 PM
08-22-2011 01:02 PM
Re: how would a person back up Integrity systems?
Hmmm.... Virtual Tape Solutions is a nice fancy term that means have a bunch of virtual tapes on a disk array? The "tapes" are imaginary? The space is on the tape is the disk. When I would back up a text file to a "tape", it would really go to a spot on a disk?
That makes sense. Over the lifecycle of backing up stuff for a computer system.... I would have used so many tapes. I would reuse most of them. If the same space of the tape is on a big old disk? I can see where the tapes are no longer needed. And if this array is duplicated to another site? I can see where this virtual tape thingy would be safer and faster. I would not be calling up a tape to put into a slot. We would already have the "tape".
And this would be a good reason why when I ask about tape drives I haven't really gotten too much for answers.
Thanks.
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08-22-2011 01:31 PM
08-22-2011 01:31 PM
Re: how would a person back up Integrity systems?
> Virtual Tape Solutions is a nice fancy term that means have a bunch of virtual tapes on a disk array? The "tapes" are imaginary? The space is on the tape is the disk. When I would back up a text file to a "tape", it would really go to a spot on a disk?
Yes. Unless you also have D2D, deduplicate, where it detects you already backed it up.
>And if this array is duplicated to another site? I can see where this virtual tape thingy would be safer and faster. I would not be calling up a tape to put into a slot. We would already have the "tape".
Right. Though there should be options to actually write tapes.
>And this would be a good reason why when I ask about tape drives I haven't really gotten too much for answers.
You may be in the wrong board or it is a slow day.