Tape drive

#1 bytemangler

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Posted 06 January 2003 - 07:53 PM

Hello all,
I'm hoping some of you admin will be able to help me out. I am looking into a bigger tape drive for work. Currently we have a Sony DDS-3 (12/24) drive and it work great. Unfortunately our storage will outgrow the tape in about a month or so. I am looking for a 40 gig uncompress type of sroage. I have some not so good expreience with Travan technology so I try to avod it. DDS-3 or 4 it good in my experience but I have not seen any drive bigger than 20 gig using DDS technology. AIT? I don't know too much about this technology, still seraching the web for more info. What backup technology are you using and can you recommend?? thanks in advance...

#2 DS3Circuit

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Posted 06 January 2003 - 09:03 PM

Well for software we use Veritas Backup Exec 8.6 with a little combo of NTBACKUP. Legato has also been will recommended.

Hardware we use:
Exabyte Mammoth drives ... 60 native, 120 compressed ... 8M I believe
IBM LTO Ultrium drives .... 100 native, 200 compressed ... Half Inch Cassette

LINKS

http://www.ultriumlto.com/ .... its ALOT of BANG for ALOT of BUCK :p

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Posted 07 January 2003 - 06:06 AM

#4 bytemangler

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Posted 08 January 2003 - 10:32 PM

Thanks for the replies. The Ultrium seems like a great solution for enterprise clase backup. Our data max about 20 gigs, that may be an overkill. Been looking into AIT from Sony (35 gig one) and it's look pretty good. Anyone have any gripe with AIT? that's the next step up in term of backup technology from DDS-3 and DDS-4 right??