Re: DDS-3 tape backup for HP9000

In article <5gq856$7fp@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, David Coburn <David_Coburn@wvccg.wvus.org> writes > > > >Mike, > >We're using the HP Omniback DLT, and went from 4-5 hours to the >internal 4mm DAT to ~30 minutes on the DLT. It is fast enough that >I'm considering dropping the level 1 archives in favour of level 0's >run three times per week. The downside is that I'm not too happy with >a couple of the "features" of the unit WRT the restore options, and >we've found a few bugs in the software. Other than that, we're happy. >Our DB is ~50Gb, and it fits fine on a single tape. > >The single most irritating bug, BTW, is the requirement that you roll >forward your logs completely. This is great if you are recovering >from a hardware failure, but eliminates the recovery options from >fat-fingered statements like 'drop ....'. Not that anybody here would >ever do anything like that, of course! (Well, you can bring it back, >but Support has to dial in and fix the dbspace flags.) I bring this >up not to gripe about the product; it works fine. Rather, if somebody >has an alternative I'd like to hear about it. > >David Online 7.2 has point in time recovery - you can rollforward to a particular time. -- David Williams