Backing Up 100 Gigs in an Hour?

Posted by Cliff on Friday February 8, 2002 @04:08AM from the that's-a-lot-of-data dept.

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."

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AIT/2/3/4 tape libraries. by Zurk · 2002-02-08 05:03 · Score: 2, Interesting

my high end spectralogic AIT-2 tape library can handle it easily. newer AIT-3/4 should be able to do it too. i can backup around 2.75TB with hardware compression before it runs outta space (30 catridges each with around 50GB uncompressed).