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.
<br><br>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.<br><br>
Regards,<br><br>Pete<br>------------------<br><a href="http://www.petelanglois.net">http://www.petelanglois.net</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:bblisa-request@bblisa.org">
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Message: 3<br>Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:52:31 -0400<br>From: Scott R Ehrlich <<a href="mailto:scott@MIT.EDU">scott@MIT.EDU</a>><br>Subject: [BBLISA] Tape drives?<br>To: <a href="mailto:bblisa@bblisa.org">bblisa@bblisa.org
</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:20070723125231.tul0jwg3i70ggk04@webmail.mit.edu">20070723125231.tul0jwg3i70ggk04@webmail.mit.edu</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>I'm pricing tape drives for high reliability. What vendor and what type do
<br>more people trust - Quantum or Dell, or someone else? Also, SDLT or LTO?<br>Price is not so much an issue as is reliability. I aim for rack mount, but<br>that isn't so important if a suitable tape drive comes along that simply hangs
<br>off the server.<br><br>Also, what brand/manufacturer tapes have people found most reliable?<br><br>This will be for 4 dual-boot (XP and CentOS 5) systems connecting to a PowerEdge<br>server. I'm awaiting details on exactly how much storage we are actually
<br>going to be dealing with, and if the data will be static or dynamic.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Scott<br></blockquote></div><br>