Mark Schoonover wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
Aron.Darling@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Loader are totally a love/hate relationship. They do make life a lot
easier as they do the tape movements for you which can be a tedious
thing at times. With a loader or library you can script the entire
operation with tar, MTX and MT and let cron do all the work for you.
Always look for the OEM rather than buying the name brand equipment,
they are most always the same HW and FW with a different model
number in it.
otoh, its hard to beat a 3 year warranty and on location support from
the same vendor as your server hardware, assuming your a brand name
shop in the first place.... hugely reduces finger pointing when
there's a complex issue to resolve. with OEM hardware bought on the
whitebox market, you're often faced with replace or self-repair
option at cost.
Having used a 20 tape library, and suffering through restores with AIT2
tapes taking 10-12 hours per tape, I gave up on them. I went with good old
rsync, and built up a 4 TB system to handle backups. Once configured, it's
nearly a 100% hands off solution. You can read about what I've done here:
http://marks-tech-pages.blogspot.com Works great especially for TBs of data
that needs to be backed up every day.
If you want something that stores the backups much more efficiently
(with a price in processing to do it), look at backuppc:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
It compresses everything and hardlinks all duplicates so you can keep
about 10x what you'd expect online, and it has a nice web interface for
browsing the backups and doing restores.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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