Damn, I forgot to mention that Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) integrates with Oracle, LTO libraries and Storage management really really well. It also lets you do LAN free backups over a SAN to speed thing up even more.
I have had a bit of experience with IBM Ultrium LTO drives on AIX in environments ranging from SCSI attached to Fibre Switched. They can backup in my experience 60-70GB per hour but the restore takes 4 times as long as the backup time. The problem I am told is the back-hitching that the tape drive has to do in order to keep data going to the disk drives. These things will restore much faster than the system can handle so they have to stop, go back and resend. What you might have to do is look at other backup methodologies like incremental hot backups of your database like RMAN for Oracle (I assume that this is what we are talking about here). Combine this with the LTO and you should easily make your backup window.
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Damn, I forgot to mention that Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) integrates with Oracle, LTO libraries and Storage management really really well. It also lets you do LAN free backups over a SAN to speed thing up even more.
I have had a bit of experience with IBM Ultrium LTO drives on AIX in environments ranging from SCSI attached to Fibre Switched. They can backup in my experience 60-70GB per hour but the restore takes 4 times as long as the backup time. The problem I am told is the back-hitching that the tape drive has to do in order to keep data going to the disk drives. These things will restore much faster than the system can handle so they have to stop, go back and resend. What you might have to do is look at other backup methodologies like incremental hot backups of your database like RMAN for Oracle (I assume that this is what we are talking about here). Combine this with the LTO and you should easily make your backup window.
Cheers,
makath99