Re: Backup media

Bill, We are currently testing onbar and Alex on our Sequent boxes. We are using Storage Tek with DLT7000. This is a configuration Seq sells. I will let you know how it goes. We are backing up filesystem as well as Informix. As for transfer rates there are more factors involved than just what the spec says. Your mileage will definitely vary. We currently use 8mm Mammoth drives 40G compressed and ontape, but we cannot fit the archive on 1 tape and cannot do parallel backups. Steve Berg spb@nb.com On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Bill Weaver wrote: > I'm looking into backup media for my Informix database as well as ontape vs > onbar. We currently have 4mm Dat drives in our box which aren't sufficient. > My hardware vendor wants to sell me DLT drives and was downplaying 8mm > drives. Talking to another tape drive vendor and they were downplaying DLT > drives and wanted to sell me 8mm drives. Both vendors sell both types but > each has their preference and are telling me why I shouldn't use the other > type of media. Now I'm confused. From your experience, is one really > better than the other? Any recommendations? > > As I said, I'm also looking into onbar. Of the various 3rd party options > that are out there to interface with onbar, what are your > experiences/recommendations? We are on 7.30 so I do have ISM available as > an option. I realize it is scaled down, but does it stack up sufficiently > 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) > -------------------------------------------------------- > >