Re: Unattended ontape

Simmons, Keith wrote: > > What loss of work?? People using an unattended overnight backup on a single tape drive have not had their logs backed since they were stopped. Everything that gets in the way of timely taping of data adds to the risk. The older the "last good copy" of the data, the worse the problem is. If shit happens, you've lost more work. > (I know on bar with parallel threads would be quicker, > but would probably take the saved time to set up in the > first place). So do it. Time taken to setup does not stop users. Time taken during recovery stops users. If you can change 15 hours into 3 hours then you are a very good administrator.