Re: Backup media

Bill, it depends on the amount of data you need to backup. We had an 8mm Exabyte drive to backup 20 GB, giving us 4 tapes and the boring work to keep somebody to change tapes ... Recently we bought a DLT and everything is working fine because it=B4s possible to backup 35GB/70GB in one cartridge, but you may prefer to buy a DAT dds3 12/24 GB (cheaper !). I hope this helps At 09:25 13/01/99 -0500, Bill Weaver wrote: >I'm looking into backup media for my Informix database as well as ontape vs= =20 >onbar. We currently have 4mm Dat drives in our box which aren't= sufficient.=20 >My hardware vendor wants to sell me DLT drives and was downplaying 8mm=20 >drives. Talking to another tape drive vendor and they were downplaying DLT= =20 >drives and wanted to sell me 8mm drives. Both vendors sell both types but= =20 >each has their preference and are telling me why I shouldn't use the other= =20 >type of media. Now I'm confused. From your experience, is one really=20 >better than the other? Any recommendations? > >As I said, I'm also looking into onbar. Of the various 3rd party options= =20 >that are out there to interface with onbar, what are your=20 >experiences/recommendations? We are on 7.30 so I do have ISM available as= =20 >an option. I realize it is scaled down, but does it stack up sufficiently= =20 >against the 3rd party solutions? >-------------------------------------------------------- >Name: Bill Weaver >E-mail: Bill Weaver <billw@fscorp.com> >Date: 01/13/99 >Time: 09:25:36 > >(Retrospectively realizes there is no future in hindsight) >-------------------------------------------------------- > > S=E9rgio Vianna Tecnologia de Informa=E7=E3o CSPC (011) 4745-5654