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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."
Hard drives may be more reliable than tapes, but when the server room has water spewing from the AC and your controllers short out, guess what?
Your "backups" are toast.
Floods, tornadoes, fires, etc happen. Sometimes people fly planes into buildings. When that happens, tapes are the only thing that keeps your business in business.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
What are you talking about?
I run a major financial bank institution on a bunch of overclocked Athlon XP's. we use IDE RAID and linux 2.4.10.