Repeat after me:
Tape backups are evil.
and I’d take it a step further:
Offline backups are evil.
Evolve.
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3 Comments
Backups on tape are maybe evil … and keeping them offline is maybe stupid.
But they are welcome in a Disaster Recovery. That’s the main reasons we have backups on LTO3 tapes, offsite … for our business it’s a requirement
Of course you *need* some kind of offline (actually: remote) backup. This post was obviously a teaser. Disaster Recovery is a procedure you need to have worked out. But in day to day usage, you never need them and you are better of with easy online backups which let you restore easily separate pieces of data. I’m sure you know the time it takes to restore that one excel file your CFO lost. That costs heaps of money in time.
Oh, and by the way. Most offline backups fail more than they ought to. Although that is more of a Windows-specific problem.