Quick question hopefully :).

Network team manages backups to tape and said tape system/application can not be setup to backup at specific times. It has some kind of queue system with windows of opportunity. Also, we have a SAN backup process that does 4 backups during business hours which I control times and frequency to some degree. Network team configures backend filer/SAN system wich is a black hole to me at the moment.

Now all my databases are set to simple. My problem is, I do think we could benefit from Full Recovery Model in many of our databases. So how would one overcome the challenge of balancing tape and SAN methods? And how does one deal with difficult Network Admins 🙂 and managers who don't understand a thing you are talking about :).

I absolutely hate tape backups 🙂 and it's a love/hate relationship with SAN. Occasionally, I have issues with SAN method filling up and needing to remove snapshots do to a large transaction. I would love to write to disk and have them backup the disk drive :).