I’m starting to look at revamping our backups & along with it the recovery plan for our location. Currently, we have a few servers and data backing up on 2 different tape drives (2 tapes a night) (both with different data from the different servers). They are taken off-site daily and rotate back into the mix a little more then every 2 weeks (with some monthly & yearly tapes kept for longer.)
Anyway, the restore procedure is something that was never a good one in my opinion. That is lets say the building is destroyed, how do we read the data from the tapes? We could purchase new tape drives, or we know some of the other local businesses IT departments will help with reading the data on their drives – but that is not really practical.
Anyway, I’m now brain storming over some ideas…
Care to help me figure this out?
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