ggirao Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Well i will need to implement a redundancy (preferably by Tape drive) archive policy for daily backups on a NAS. Do you suggest anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 I suggest "Copy Media Set" or "Copy Backup" from the disk media set to a tape media set. Which one depends on your needs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted January 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Hello Lennart, useful as always But what media type do you suggest? I don't have the Tape drive, and studying what to do ASAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 I suggest an LTO drive. It is supported by multiple vendors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open Make sure it's compatible with Retrospect. http://www.retrospect.com/en/devices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomcha Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Another vote for LTO. I like HP drives. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted January 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 As I see HP doesn't support FC interface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 http://www.retrospect.com/en/devices?utf8=✓&manufacturers=Hewlett-Packard&interfaces=Fibre+Channel&media_types=&commit=Search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted January 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted January 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 But no Thunderbolt at all... for LTO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 24, 2014 Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 The hardware is here: http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/tapes/tandberg-thunderbolt-promise/ http://www.mlogic.com/blogs/news/9073149-mlogic-introduces-mtape-thunderbolt-lto-6-and-mlink-rx-thunderbolt-expansion-chassis-for-red-rocket-x-at-ibc-2013 There are also Thunderbolt to FC converters and Thunderbolt to SAS converters. The question is Retrospect compatibility. I have no answer for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted January 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_series.aspx?region=en-global&m=192&rsn1=40&rsn3=49 I know this converter, but retro compatibility is a question! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 24, 2014 Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 There are a few converters and/or PCIe enclosures that are compatible: http://www.retrospect.com/en/devices?utf8=✓&interfaces=Thunderbolt&commit=Search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted January 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 That was a great tip! TY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted January 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 I suggest "Copy Media Set" or "Copy Backup" from the disk media set to a tape media set. Which one depends on your needs. Skärmavbild 2014-01-22 kl. 14.09.16.png I have a question regarding this feature. If I copy a backup and try to "continue" this backup on the final destination (on copy) Retrospect starts a new full backup. It doesn't compare contents. Is this meant to be this way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted January 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2014 So I'll have Archiving on LTO, but need daily bkps on a DAS (preferably) by Thunderbolt rackmount. Can't find nothing besides Promise... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 I have a question regarding this feature. If I copy a backup and try to "continue" this backup on the final destination (on copy) Retrospect starts a new full backup. It doesn't compare contents. Is this meant to be this way? I do not think it is meant that way. I use this feature only on the Windows version. There it compares just fine and copies only what has changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted February 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Does version 9 of retrospect works with last mac os X Server (mavericks server)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted February 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 OK. So I have a Mac server with Mavs, Retro 10 doing daily bckps to a thunderbolt HDD, and a LTO5 storageloader. As you suggested Disk->Disk->Tape. So Tape will be backup of the backup of initial disk, right? On tapes will be the RDB files from the retrospect backups that I did earlier from initial working disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 So Tape will be backup of the backup of initial disk, right? Right! You can restore directly from the tapes. You do not have to restore the RDB files first and then restore again from them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted February 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 TY that makes sense and that way I can save space on Tapes. Not all differential on that week, only last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted February 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 I noticed the minute after I connected the LTO StorageLoader a slowness server! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted March 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 D Day! So I'm going to restore almost a year backup day from several LTOs Scenario: - day by day backup (incremental) and last backups didn't run well as the space on LTOs filled up. So this last backup didn't complete snapshot also. Is it possible to rebuild a snapshot based on the tapes? - I want to restore only last version of each file/folder, but I'm encountering several folder that only appears in search, not in last backup. Any ideas? TY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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