Question for tape backup

[Mridul Dutta]

1) DLT tape drive will help you
2) veritas netback is No 1

Mridul


On 6/1/06, Edson Noboru Yamada <enyamada at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Some points to consider:
>
> a) A tape library can dramatically reduce your workload and chances of
> errors.
>
> b) Software: there are some good open source solutions (amanda, bacula).
> Not
> as good as Veritas netbackup, for example, but they´re work fine
> (specially
> for
> a non large number of clients, as seems your case).
>
> c) Disk backups have a quicker restore. They´re good for recent backup
> images (that
> are more likely to be restored).
>
> hope this helps
>
>
>
> On 6/1/06, Yasushi Okubo <yasushi at cabm.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, experts
> >
> > I have a general question about a tape backup.   We have outsourced tape
> > backup services outside our group, but it is getting time to do it by
> > ourselves.
> > So, I would like to seek advices/suggestions from experts on this issue
> > before we start buying hardware and software.
> >
> > We have about 4TB of active files and directories to backup in our
> > production machines, which include file servers, mirrors of desktop home
> > dir/laptop home dir/external drives etc.
> > We still use tape backup since we need to keep those data for more than
> > 10 years.
> > And we now consolidated those mirror locations to  three machines , each
> > machine contains  over 1 TB  of mirrored files and directories.
> > One of reasons that outside group is giving up our tape backup was the
> > work load.  It seems that troubleshooting activities of
> > hardware/software related issues around tape backup is killing them.
> >
> > Could you advise me your opinions about the following issues ?
> >
> > We are thinking to connect tape backup machine through scsi interface,
> > but not sure about it yet.
> >
> > 1. hardware: recommended hardware/types of tape etc
> > 2. software : recommended software [I only know akeia, but is it good
> > enough ?]
> > 3. backup strategy: we consolidated mirrored files onto three machines
> > now, but was it a good idea since disk space to backup is quite large ?
> > 4. workload : should I expect how many hours of work required every day
> > or per month related to tape backup ?
> > 5. are there any issues I should be aware of ?
> > 6. any issues in installation/setup/maintenance related to recommended
> > framework above?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > yasushi
> >
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