1) DLT tape drive will help you 2) veritas netback is No 1 Mridul On 6/1/06, Edson Noboru Yamada <enyamada@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Some points to consider: a) A tape library can dramatically reduce your workload and chances of errors. b) Software: there are some good open source solutions (amanda, bacula). Not as good as Veritas netbackup, for example, but they´re work fine (specially for a non large number of clients, as seems your case). c) Disk backups have a quicker restore. They´re good for recent backup images (that are more likely to be restored). hope this helps On 6/1/06, Yasushi Okubo <yasushi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, experts > > I have a general question about a tape backup. We have outsourced tape > backup services outside our group, but it is getting time to do it by > ourselves. > So, I would like to seek advices/suggestions from experts on this issue > before we start buying hardware and software. > > We have about 4TB of active files and directories to backup in our > production machines, which include file servers, mirrors of desktop home > dir/laptop home dir/external drives etc. > We still use tape backup since we need to keep those data for more than > 10 years. > And we now consolidated those mirror locations to three machines , each > machine contains over 1 TB of mirrored files and directories. > One of reasons that outside group is giving up our tape backup was the > work load. It seems that troubleshooting activities of > hardware/software related issues around tape backup is killing them. > > Could you advise me your opinions about the following issues ? > > We are thinking to connect tape backup machine through scsi interface, > but not sure about it yet. > > 1. hardware: recommended hardware/types of tape etc > 2. software : recommended software [I only know akeia, but is it good > enough ?] > 3. backup strategy: we consolidated mirrored files onto three machines > now, but was it a good idea since disk space to backup is quite large ? > 4. workload : should I expect how many hours of work required every day > or per month related to tape backup ? > 5. are there any issues I should be aware of ? > 6. any issues in installation/setup/maintenance related to recommended > framework above? > > > Thanks, > yasushi > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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