Re: onbar

Christopher, OnBar 'smarts' is not the issue. The real question is which storage manager you are using. Basically, I think any storage manager would be able to stack both database backups on one DAT tape. I would vote for using the other DAT tape drive for logs. I would NOT ever want to put the logs and database backups on the same tape. If you do, and the latest backup contains some logs and the database requires a restore, you would be "sc***ed, glued and tattooed" if that tape is bad. Put the logs on a separate tape, at all costs, and then you can restore from ANY backup version as long as the log tapes are good. I'd also vote for swapping tapes daily.... If you're not going to take that backup away to CYA in case of site problems, why take the backup? And putting two versions of a database backup on the same tape renders the first one meaningless. You can process it, but the only time you would need it would be if the second backup on the tape couldn't be read (as in media error), in which case you probably can't read the first backup either. Better to spend a few (maybe 10 minutes) a day doing a few routine steps and spending a few dollars more on tapes than having to spend days trying to figure out where you're going to get all that data to be re-entered..... There's inexpensive, and then there's cheap. Been there, seen that, wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. HTH, Doug "Christopher Stefanick" <chainsaw24@email.msn.com> wrote in message news:#mrltau6$GA.283@cpmsnbbsa09... > I have 2 instances I need to back up through onbar, and I'm wondering how > many tape drives I need. They are both very small, about 1GB a piece, and > should easily fit on the 4 GB dat drive I have. Of course I'm going to want > the logs backed up too. I'm using onbar so that the whole thing is > automated. How many tape drives do I need? Is onbar smart enough to be > able to put system backups and logs on the same tape? If so, I could easily > get by with 2 tape drives and possibly one. If not, I'll need at least 4 to > avoid having to swap tapes daily. At that point, a juke box might be the > way to go. Any suggestions? > >