We currently backup 200GB - 300GB of data each night. we recently switched from DLT tapes to a LTO tape loader which has turned out to be very nice... but... as a single backup unit pulling datafrom all our servers it has also approached the 'takes to long' category.
So what we have just started to test is a dual setup. We bought a cheap IDE RAID computer which we racked out with 7 120GB IDE drives. We put 2 1 GB copper nics into the computer and also put the loader on the computer. So we are planning on doing a complete Electronic backup over night from all the servers to the cheap IDE RAID drives. (in theory this should be alot quicker) then once that is done our LTO tape backup can kickoff and backup the cheap IDE RAID for us. it can chug away on the backup all day if it needs to not affecting the servers if it takes to long. this also keeps our offsite storage on LTO Tape...
has anyone out there tried this type of setup before and if so what kind of problems/results occured with it?
its a Idea we feel is worthwhile to test...
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We currently backup 200GB - 300GB of data each night. we recently switched from DLT tapes to a LTO tape loader which has turned out to be very nice... but... as a single backup unit pulling datafrom all our servers it has also approached the 'takes to long' category. So what we have just started to test is a dual setup. We bought a cheap IDE RAID computer which we racked out with 7 120GB IDE drives. We put 2 1 GB copper nics into the computer and also put the loader on the computer. So we are planning on doing a complete Electronic backup over night from all the servers to the cheap IDE RAID drives. (in theory this should be alot quicker) then once that is done our LTO tape backup can kickoff and backup the cheap IDE RAID for us. it can chug away on the backup all day if it needs to not affecting the servers if it takes to long. this also keeps our offsite storage on LTO Tape... has anyone out there tried this type of setup before and if so what kind of problems /results occured with it?
its a Idea we feel is worthwhile to test...