[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/5/2022 6:53 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 3/5/22 16:37, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> On 3/5/22 12:38 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> Who is responsible for backups in a Cloud based system?
>>
>> The same people that are responsible for backups when in an on 
>> premises data center.
>>
>> Why would the location of the system alter who's responsible for 
>> ensuring that backups are being created and tested?
> 
> How would I perform backups and test them if I don't even know where,
> physically, the system I am running on is?  If I did, would they even
> let me in the door, much less into the data center?

You access the systems over the network.You don't need to know where
the hardware is physical located - you just need to know how to connect.

>> Sure, the technology used for the backups may be different.  But -- to 
>> me -- the responsible parties are still the same.
> 
> Are you saying backups have to be done over the Internet to tapes
> located in my office?  After all, the reason for going to The Cloud
> was to get out of the data center business.  Even in a data center
> as small as mine was at the University doing a complete backup (usually
> done once a month) over the network could take a more than a day.  That
> can't be right.

Anything is possible.

But typical you will backup to backup storage at same or alternate cloud
provider.

Large backups take time - both with tape drives and network.

Arne