RE: Alternatives to Iron Mountain -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: Alternatives to Iron Mountain
From: "Evan Harris" <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 07:49:39 +1300
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He means backup up the replicated copy instead of the source copy, like many
HA sites do.

If you can't rely on the copy at this level then you don't have a HA system.

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Evan Harris

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Subject: Re: Alternatives to Iron Mountain

Interesting concept but I bet the speed of the comm line to that site is a
wee bit slower than a local tape drive.

Backup to tape, then duptap it to virtual tape?

Rob Berendt

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