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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com>
To:        Meagan Jia Pi <meagan@e-lingo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Backup Solution
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000725101459.17523B-100000@utah>
In-Reply-To: <068701bff650$89ea1820$e293c83f@meagan>

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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Meagan Jia Pi wrote:

> Morning!
> 
> Currently we have two data centers: one is local and the other is remote
> at a co-location. 
> 
> Currently I am only doing backups using DLT 7000 on critical machines
> (AIT seems better with bigger capacity and cheaper price?), as you know,
> it will become a big problem as the company grows or when I make a false
> judgment on which machines are critical.  Scalability and reliability
> are very important to us.  Using jukboxes seems to be a very good
> solution. Has any of you have experience with using juckboxes?
> 
> 
> What would you do?

I would use amanda no matter what hardware I chose. To be fair I do not
know about commercial solutions that may exist. Also, if you have a slow
link anywhere in between your hosts a networked backup solution may be
problematic.

With Amanda's scheduling capability you might even find that a robot is
not really necessary, depending on your total disc usage among all hosts.
E.g.  Assuming a week long dump cycle with a 70GB DLT with hardware
compression you could handle 490 GB (minus a fudge factor) of allocated
disc.

Thank you,
Jason C. Wells



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