[ale] tape backup of homenet

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Don't forget the Ecrix folks who came out a few months ago to
ALE. They have a promotion going on right now that makes these drives
cheaper than DAT drives, (but still more than a travan tape)

www.ecrix.com

-Eric.

Jeff Hubbs writes:
 > 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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