[ale] raid suggestions

[Lightner, Jeff]

Don't we all...

It took several years of campaigning and regular backup failures before the powers that be finally replaced our old LTO1 tape library (with fibre muxes to convert SCSI) with a new one LTO5 with fibre drives STK L700 with the Quantum i6000.   That thing has been going like gangbusters for over a year now.

Maybe a timely 36 hour downtime would encourage folks there that they need to invest in backup technology.   Backups never seem important until you NEED to do a restore.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of mike at trausch.us
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:50 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] raid suggestions

On 02/10/2012 11:45 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> If it is a SAN environment then maybe you can sell the idea of fibre
> tape drives to allow backups of multiple systems?   An LTO5 drive is
> extremely fast.
>
> I've used NetBackup pretty much everywhere for several years but I
> hear a lot of good things about FOSS stuff like Bacula.

It's in the cards, eventually.

I don't control the environment there, I just manage it within my
constraints.

        --- Mike

--
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, "Logic"





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