On Jan 21, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Julian Regel wrote: > >> Until you try to pick one up and put it in a fire safe! > > >Then you backup to tape from x4540 whatever data you need. > >In case of enterprise products you save on licensing here as you need a one > >client license per x4540 but in fact can >backup data from many clients > >which are there. > > Which brings up full circle... > > What do you then use to backup to tape bearing in mind that the Sun-provided > tools all have significant limitations?
Poor choice of words. Sun resells NetBackup and (IIRC) that which was formerly called NetWorker. Thus, Sun does provide enterprise backup solutions. If I may put on my MBA hat, the competition is not ufsdump. ufsdump has nearly zero market penetration and no prospects for improving its market share. Making another ufsdump will also gain no market share. The market leaders are the likes of EMC, IBM, and Symantec with their heterogenous backup support. If Sun wanted to provide a better solution that might gain market share against the others, then it would also need to be heterogenous. So I think it would be hard to make a business case for a whole new backup solution. A less costly and less risky approach is to work with the market leaders to better integrate with dataset replication. Caveat: this may already be available, I haven't looked recently. > I guess you need to use a third party tool and watch carefully that they > provide complete backups. This is a good idea anyway. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
