Anybody ditched tapes completely/cheap array recommendations?

[J1nxy]

It depends on what areas you trade in but there are a lot of data retention requirements imposed on local and central government particularly around personal/social records. Financial and insurance have long retention requirements for compliance and there are simliar things for health and safety records.

What the specifics are i can't remember off the top of my head but you need to be aware of them if you hold records or contract type information.

 

[Hairy]

Quite - having said that, your backup/replication plans should be dictated by business requirements rather than ideal scenarios. If you can afford fully replicated infrastructure I guess the demands placed upon your infrastructure really require it. And vice versa.

Actual backup solutions aren't that expensive to implement. Storage is cheap and backup software isn't massively expensive. There is certainly no excuse for anyone not to backup.

I agree,

I depends on how much the company values their uptime!

 

[Yamahahahahaha]

J1nxy - any examples of regulatory/statutory requirements? I've been looking for written examples but struggling to find anything.

Brrr, statutory and regulatory requirements really do depend on the activities of the firm. If they're not aware of them specifically then company policy (IT or otherwise) would not cover it.

There are common amounts in each industry generally, 2 - 3 years for medical, 7 years for accounting, 10 for legal and architecture can be from anything from 5 to indefinite (bringing it's own interesting problems).

QA and compliance officers should have this sort of thing to hand, it would definitely be worth having a chat with them.

 

[Besty]

Yes, it is nice to ditch tapes, not everyone can

The DataDomain appliances are worth a look, the do small to large, they work most excellently with Netbackup.

Expensive but what price for good reliable data protection?