Michael,  I really don't know: I've been passed the request by a group
doing initial planning, and I think they are open to any suggestions,
including quite expensive ones.  High-end systems are expected, but
neither they nor I are familiar with the performance considerations on
non-mainframe servers.  Thanks for your help!  Jeff Savit

On Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:31:50 -0700 Michael Louie said:
>What type of tape drive?? How many tape drives?? How many tape drives per
>SCSI Channel??
>
>At 02:28 PM 6/20/96 EDT, you wrote:
>>Can anybody give rough CPU sizing figures for a server farm backing up 160GB
>>per night (6 hour window). We figure that's sustainst 170 MIPS on mainframe.
>>Any ideas what type of RS/6000 capacity would be required for equivalent
>>capacity?  Thanks again, Jeff
>>
>>
>Michael Louie
>Varian Associates
>415-424-5055