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From: bergstr@hi-csc.UUCP (Darryl Bergstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Large scale backups
Summary: Re: Large scale backups
Keywords: backup video tape optical
Message-ID: <3deff8dd.b263@hi-csc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Aug 88 19:39:00 GMT
References: <15278@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: Honeywell CSDD, Golden Valley, MN
Lines: 40

In article <15278@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, dj@COGNET.UCLA.EDU writes:
> 
> We have a fairly new network of 40 Apollos running 9.7 (SR10 "Real Soon
> Now" :-).  The topic of system backups has become an issue for us.
> According some rough figuring, we have a worst case of 5 Gb of user space
> to back up, and are presently using about 2 Gb.  Obviously mag tapes
> aren't a nice way to go (20 tapes!?), so what is available?
> 
> I have heard about Workstation Solutions' exaTape (SCSI 8mm video for
> $6950), but I am not familiar with anything else.  We are open to any
> cost effective solution (video tape, optical disk, ...).  Does anyone
> have any suggestions, recommendations, or words from the wise?
> 
> 

Well, we are in a similar situation, and about a year and a half ago, my 
predecessor bought a megatape mt-750 (750 meg) streaming tape drive.  Let me
say that as a student who had to do the backups, this drive was a godsend 
compared to our suns that used 60 meg cartridges.  Megatape now has an 8mm             
tape drive (alas we don't have this one).  As for the ExaTape, we have four            
of them for our Sun fileservers and the speed is incredible! They took a 12 hour
backup and reduced it to 1.5 hours, and from MegaTapes flyers on their 8mm the         
backup rate is about 2.3Gig in 4 hours.  I have 0 experience with optical disks,       
but aren't they write once/read many?  that can get expensive.  I would                
recommend the 8mm drives (tapes are cheap $9 around MN and the speed is great)         

> 					thanks,
> 					  dj
your welcome

Darryl Bergstrom
Honeywell Corporate Systems Development Division, Golden Valley, MN
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-Darryl Bergstrom
-Honeywell Corporate Systems Development Division, Golden Valley, Mn
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