[ale] tape backup of homenet

[Jeff Hubbs]

Frank -

DLT drives are nice - fast and capacious - but they're expensive.  Travan
tapes can get you in almost the same ballpark as regards capacity, but the
drives are ~$200-$300.  Knox Software's Arkeia should be looked into in
addition to Veritas.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Zamenski [mailto:fzamenski at voyager.net]
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 1:09 PM
> To: ale
> Subject: [ale] tape backup of homenet
> 
> 
> 
> Soliciting suggestions before diving into deep research, as I 
> know many
> here could likely save me a lot of time prior and offer up 
> some real-life
> useful suggestions gained from experience.
> 
> I'd like to eventually get a tape backup solution for my 
> entire homenet.
> Maybe to a DLT. I'm thinking of using either a dedicated Linux RH 6.x
> or Caldera 2.2 P166 box, or, Solaris 7 x86 on same, as the dedicated
> server to the tape drive. Clients will be assorted Linux boxes, Win 9x
> boxes (spouse's, kid's, and my dedicated entertainment boxes), an NT4
> server, Novell 4.11 (maybe), and probably eventually W2K. (It's a
> dynamic 'flavors of the month' net, always messin' with it, I 
> need to stay
> up on everything.)
> 
> What software and hardware to consider? Currently this is a 10mbps
> combined utp/coax net, could be upped to 100mbps easily enough.
> SCSI tape in server will likely be a given.
> 
> At work we use Veritas Net Backup on Solaris for all Solaris and  NT
> servers, to an STK 9714 tape silo, so I am familiar with it. 
> Nice pkg, and
> they've also ported it over to RH. Not sure if they'll sell 
> me a 'small
> potatoes'
> license for a small net, but probably moot due to cost if 
> they would. Can
> BRU do what I want to do? Others?
> 
> Ufsdump and friends of course would work nicely for Solaris 
> and Linux, but
> the MS boxes limit that choice. I want a one pkg fits all 
> solution. Have
> seen
> dd imaging mentioned for even imaging MS, seems very cool, 
> but probably
> beyond my ability to write a script using it to handle a 
> mixed dynamic net
> with
> varied MS file systems. (yeah, yeah: "dump MS!" Divorce wife, 
> disown kid...
> uh... not an option.  :-)
> 
> Thanks much.
> Frank Z.
> 
> 
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