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Backing Up 100 Gigs in an Hour?
cybrthng asks: "I am faced with finding a backup solution capable of archiving to tape about 200 gigs of a financials data in a 2 hour window. I originally looked into DLT8000 Jukeboxes with 2-4 drives but have recently discovered the new LTO drives. I am interested in knowing real world experiences with these drives as there has to be a catch. I mean there is a 3 fold performance increase in data transfers, two fold increase in tape capacity and a minimal price increase overall. With these drastic differences is there something I'm giving up with LTO over DLT or vice versa? Which backup applications are more geared to handling volume and integrate with Oracle RDBMS? Restoring speed is even more critical then backup speed so i'm curious about how these two drives compare and which applications are best geared for this much data on a nightly bases. Mind you there will also be about 500 gigs of data in an end-of-week backup as well."
Your laptop has a hard drive.
/. and you made a bad financial decision to purchase tape drives.
You can get 600 gigs for $3000 in shock resistant laptop hard drives. Still 3 times as much data for the same price.
Do you work for a tape drive manufacturer? I have never heard of a tape drive fanboy. Sure there are AMD, Intel, ATI and Nvidia fanboys but not tape drive fanboys. You must have considerable finacial liability associated with tape drives. Or you are trying to justify tapes because your boss reads
You must be an old guy afraid to move on to better technology because you have always done it the same way. Well, I'm an old guy too but I gave up my 75 baud rubber cup phone modem in 1983.
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