On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 10:35:09AM -0600, Tim Tsai wrote:
> What do you guys do for backup's? Do you put two NIC cards in each
> server and maintain a separate network for that?
We actually use a couple Storagetek 9710 tape libraries. 10 DLT 7000 drives
and something like 800 slots for tapes. We direct attach a couple drives to
each big machine that needs to be backed up. Veritas Netbackup coordinates the
actions of the drives and the robot and actually performs the backup. Smaller
machines we do back up over the network although usually on the same NIC and
network we use for regular operations. This may be overkill for your situation
depending on how much data you have to back up. If an autochanging tape
library is out of your league direct attached DLT is still the way to go.
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Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org
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