[BBLISA] Tape drives?

[Pete Langlois]

At all of the data centers I'm responsible we use IBM LTO2 and LTO3
changers.  From 3583 to the newest TS3310 with the L5B and E9U expansion.
We use all 2g/4g fibre gbics depending on the site and all of these are ADIC
manufactured with IBM logos.  Backup times range about 1-2Gig per min over
fibre and we backup 10's of Terrabytes of data off of IBM DS4000 series SAN.


All issues have been repaired under warranty and have not had any impact to
backups.  We have 99% of all restores complete successfully.  The 1% is the
data was never backed up or the incorrect path is given.

Regards,

Pete
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http://www.petelanglois.net

On 7/23/07, bblisa-request at bblisa.org <bblisa-request at bblisa.org> wrote:
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:52:31 -0400
> From: Scott R Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: [BBLISA] Tape drives?
> To: bblisa at bblisa.org
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> I'm pricing tape drives for high reliability.   What vendor and what type
> do
> more people trust - Quantum or Dell, or someone else?   Also, SDLT or LTO?
> Price is not so much an issue as is reliability.    I aim for rack mount,
> but
> that isn't so important if a suitable tape drive comes along that simply
> hangs
> off the server.
>
> Also, what brand/manufacturer tapes have people found most reliable?
>
> This will be for 4 dual-boot (XP and CentOS 5) systems connecting to a
> PowerEdge
> server.    I'm awaiting details on exactly how much storage we are
> actually
> going to be dealing with, and if the data will be static or dynamic.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
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