Re: Data Protector 9.0 and StoreOnce

Regarding
Question #3.  My Manager & Director have said that they want to get away from tape backups.  It was my understanding that DP 9.0 Data deduplacation would all me to keep my backuped data for ever.  Then I read further in a DP document and read that if I want to keep the backed up data longer than one year then I need to back it up to tape.  Is this correct?

Answer

I would say your understanding ("keep my backuped data for ever") was incorrrect.

I only know StoreOnce Software (SOS) really well, it is a low cost
dedplication solution, and is not intended for permanant data storage.
I'm not sure where they give a spec, but it is in the documenttation that
it is not  for permananent data storage.
In my opinion a few weeks, or one or 2 months, is a typical time period.
2 months maximum (in my opinion).

Object copy the data to another format if you need it longer.


There are two, more expensive, HP dedplication solutions
    - Virtual StoreOnce Appliance
    - The physical StoreOnce appliances.

Certainly the physical StoreOnce appliances are OK for protecting data longer,
than 2 months but I don't think they are for permananent data storage.