Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:51:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org> To: Meagan Jia Pi <meagan@e-lingo.com> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup Solution Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007251048070.5286-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <06cc01bff65e$9d954f30$e293c83f@meagan>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Meagan Jia Pi wrote: > > Autoloaders are handy if you have to backup a lot of storage and need to > > span across multiple tapes (and don't want to babysit the backup). But if > > you don't have a lot of stuff to back up, or if the data is highly > > compressible, a standard tape drive should be fine. > > > > If redundancy is crucial, you may want to install a tape drive in each > > machine. This will reduce the need to backup across the network and in > > case one drive goes down, you can use another drive in the other machine > > to do a network backup. The downside to this method is the higher up-front > > cost. > > > > For our datacenter, we have a 22-slot DLT IV autoloader connected to a > > Windows 2000 machine (shh! I know, I know!!!) using Veritas Backup > > Exec. It works great for our Windows servers, but doesn't work with the > > BSD servers that run Samba. > > Why didn't you choose AIT? We already had another DLT drive which we wanted to read old backups from. Unfortunately, that one kicked the null bit bucket a while back and used DDS3 DAT drives but boy did it suck :) // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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