Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:38:47 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Matt Anderson <matt.anderson@aecinc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm looking for low-cost, 120G backup solution. Message-ID: <3D667327.6010603@potentialtech.com> References: <3D6662D1.6090007@potentialtech.com> <1030121391.18027.1.camel@aec-01.aecinc.com>
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Matt Anderson wrote: > Well, first thing I noticed is that you spoke about compression a lot > but if you are backing up jpegs you won't really get any compression. Exactly, that's why most of the low-cost solutions I've found won't work, because they can only get the amount of storage we need if they assume 2:1 compression, and we don't get anywhere near that. It's probably something closer to 10:9 compression. > Second, having done a lot of looking for large capacity backup recently, > I don't think you'll find anything adequate that is "low cost". Guess I should have been clearer. I was looking at something in line with the Onstream 120G systems. ~$1000 for the drive, and ~$100/tape. When I first started looking, I couldn'd find anything with near that capacity for under $2000 (most were around $4000) but we found the VXA-2 system which boasts BSD compatibility and runs right about the price-range we were looking for. Thanks for the reply. > Matt Anderson > > On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 09:29, Bill Moran wrote: > >>Hello all. >> >>I'm looking for a backup solution that can handle as much >>as 120G (compressed) per tape. >>I was pretty excited about OnStream's systems, except that >>they don't seem to be supported by FreeBSD. Is anyone out >>there using one of these reliably? >>The client is currently using DAT tapes, but they've got >>over 50G worth of data to back up, and it doesn't seem to >>compress any smaller than 40G. (this is a design firm, a >>lot of their files are HUGE, photo-quality jpegs) >>With the DATs, it takes all day of swapping tapes to get >>a backup. >>We're looking at adding another 74G of storage to the main >>fileserver, and I don't want to upgrade their backup system >>to something that will be overwhelmed in 6 months. >>Any suggestions? >> >>-- >>Bill Moran >>Potential Technologies >>http://www.potentialtech.com >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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