Question : Problem: Backup Solution Best Practices / SOP?

I'm trying to optimize our backup solution by starting with the backup jobs first however, I need to present justification for changing the entire process. We use tape backups and physical replace the tapes quarterly with new tapes. We have 60 tapes total. We don't really overwrite them.

I'm trying to optimize this process to save money and for most efficiency based off of standard operating procedures and best practices.

Does someone have something simliar that I can use as a template or at least something with the correct formating with what I'm trying to do?

Answer : Problem: Backup Solution Best Practices / SOP?

Ok here is the process

We need one year of backups available

So at the end of the year we rotate old backups quarterly. So about 120 tapes every three months go back into the machihne and get overwriten.

We use Full backups for small jobs and only incrementals on brick mailbox level backups and the huge file server obviously. We don't use snapshot but we do use the GRT option even though it doesent work because we use tape backups so it's pretty much useless since it ocpies the entire database to the backup server (staging area)  even when you choose one little message.