Some quick answers. I have a IBM 3584 LTO library with 8 drives and IBM tapes, have had about 6 months. Drives are FC-AL through McData ES-1000 switches to IBM PSeries (RS6000) 6H1.
I find no problems with tapes. We compress on tape, not client. Getting about 275GB on tapes - range from 220 to 350GB. Have mixture of data types, Oracle Db's with RMAN, AIX and NT files, TDP SQL DB backups. Going tape to tape I get 115GB per hour transfer rate. Basically, I like it! David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/24/02 03:17PM >>> Hello everyone! The environment here is going to be changing soon... We will be moving off of the mainframe and onto an AIX server that will be on our SAN. We will have 1 STK silo for the tapes for 2 TSM servers. Right now we are considering IBM's LTO or STK's 9840. I was just wondering if anyone out there has had experience with either one and if so, what are the pro's and con's of them? Has anyone that has worked with LTO know how long it takes to recover a bad tape? Considering that they are 100GB tapes, it was assumed that it would take 5 times as long as it does to recover a Magstar 3590(20 GB). And also, do the tapes get damaged easily or is that all a matter of handling them to take them offsite to vaults? Thank you!!!! Joni Moyer Associate Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338 "MMS <health-first.org>" made the following annotations on 07/24/2002 07:08:13 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==============================================================================
