Tape drive
Hello all, I'm hoping some of you admin will be able to help me out. I am looking into a bigger tape drive for work. Currently we have a Sony DDS-3 (12/24) drive and it work great. Unfortunately our storage will outgrow the tape in about a month or so.
Hello all,
I'm hoping some of you admin will be able to help me out. I am looking into a bigger tape drive for work. Currently we have a Sony DDS-3 (12/24) drive and it work great. Unfortunately our storage will outgrow the tape in about a month or so. I am looking for a 40 gig uncompress type of sroage. I have some not so good expreience with Travan technology so I try to avod it. DDS-3 or 4 it good in my experience but I have not seen any drive bigger than 20 gig using DDS technology. AIT? I don't know too much about this technology, still seraching the web for more info. What backup technology are you using and can you recommend?? thanks in advance...
I'm hoping some of you admin will be able to help me out. I am looking into a bigger tape drive for work. Currently we have a Sony DDS-3 (12/24) drive and it work great. Unfortunately our storage will outgrow the tape in about a month or so. I am looking for a 40 gig uncompress type of sroage. I have some not so good expreience with Travan technology so I try to avod it. DDS-3 or 4 it good in my experience but I have not seen any drive bigger than 20 gig using DDS technology. AIT? I don't know too much about this technology, still seraching the web for more info. What backup technology are you using and can you recommend?? thanks in advance...
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Well for software we use Veritas Backup Exec 8.6 with a little combo of NTBACKUP. Legato has also been will recommended.
Hardware we use:
Exabyte Mammoth drives ... 60 native, 120 compressed ... 8M I believe
IBM LTO Ultrium drives .... 100 native, 200 compressed ... Half Inch Cassette
LINKS
http://www.ultriumlto.com/ .... its ALOT of BANG for ALOT of BUCK
Hardware we use:
Exabyte Mammoth drives ... 60 native, 120 compressed ... 8M I believe
IBM LTO Ultrium drives .... 100 native, 200 compressed ... Half Inch Cassette
LINKS
http://www.ultriumlto.com/ .... its ALOT of BANG for ALOT of BUCK
At work we have a Storagetek L20 drive. It's fully loaded with 2 x LTO Ultirum Drives, and 20 slots for LTO Ultirum tapes.
We use Legato Networker and backup around 25 servers everynight. On the whole it works pretty well.
This isn't a cheap option though. IIRC the tape library was around £20K. The tapes are about £60ish each, and the Networker backup software runs into the thousands.
It really is an enterprise level solution. It has a few little quirks, but the support bods from our reseller are very helpful. There are also a number of Legato authorised training courses to attend which will get you up to speed.
Just about everything is licensed seperately though.
Need to upgrade your tape library from 1 drive to 2 drives? ANother drive license is needed. Upgrading it from 10 slots to 20 slots, a license upgrade is needed. Want to backup a SQL database server, you need to but a modue to do that.
The cost soon mounts up. There have been times we've almost dumped Networker because of the cost of these licenses and modules, but we figure that if we do that, then all the money we've currently spent will be lost anyway. So we keep forking out for it. It's one of those situations unfortunately. Once you get into it, it can be very costly to get out
We use Legato Networker and backup around 25 servers everynight. On the whole it works pretty well.
This isn't a cheap option though. IIRC the tape library was around £20K. The tapes are about £60ish each, and the Networker backup software runs into the thousands.
It really is an enterprise level solution. It has a few little quirks, but the support bods from our reseller are very helpful. There are also a number of Legato authorised training courses to attend which will get you up to speed.
Just about everything is licensed seperately though.
Need to upgrade your tape library from 1 drive to 2 drives? ANother drive license is needed. Upgrading it from 10 slots to 20 slots, a license upgrade is needed. Want to backup a SQL database server, you need to but a modue to do that.
The cost soon mounts up. There have been times we've almost dumped Networker because of the cost of these licenses and modules, but we figure that if we do that, then all the money we've currently spent will be lost anyway. So we keep forking out for it. It's one of those situations unfortunately. Once you get into it, it can be very costly to get out
Thanks for the replies. The Ultrium seems like a great solution for enterprise clase backup. Our data max about 20 gigs, that may be an overkill. Been looking into AIT from Sony (35 gig one) and it's look pretty good. Anyone have any gripe with AIT? that's the next step up in term of backup technology from DDS-3 and DDS-4 right??
