RE: backup takes too long

In article , croft.evelyn@dorseylaw.com says... > > >What hardware do you have? You can probably buy a much faster tape >drive an significantly reduce your backup time. > >-- >I am currently writing a book for O'Reilly Publishing about enterprise >backup and recovery, and would really appreciate hearing anything >you would like to ask me or tell me. If you have problems with >something, then others will as well. Can you think of anything >else that should go in such a book? > >-- >Eve answers Curtis question: > >Backup Hardware info: >We have HP9000/HP70 >Dual 96Mhz PA-RISC, 512 Mbyte RAM, One 1GB Internal Single-Ended Scsi = >Disk Drive, Six 2GB External F/W/S Disk Drives, Two 2-8GB Dat Tape Drives = >etc etc. > >Tape parameters: >Tape Device [/dev/rmt/1hc] >Block size [64] Kbytes >Tape size [1900000] Kbytes > >Presently using 4mm tapes. Level 0 informix backup takes 10-12 hours = >depending upon system activity... presently 8 tapes. Not sure if the = >backup size can be cut down in hours if so what can be done? Also, I am = >looking for some type of tape drive that can be purchased that can back = >up our system automatically... without someone being there to change = >tapes. > >Any suggestions? > >Thanks, >Eve We are about to evaluate a tape library solution for similar reasons. ADIC, Exabyte, Spectralogic & Storagetek are among the many vendors you may want to contact. Barbara Grant bgrant@attcapital.com