>Hi,
>
>Just looking at the same thing for our smaller sites. We have used Sony AIT
>in EMASS (now ADIC) libraries for larger sites. AIT was chosen for its high
>capacity and fast load times (DLT has good capacity but is really slow to
>get online and offline, 3570 is great for load times but doesn't hold very
>much data). It throughput is better than 3570 and equal to DLT7000 (from
>ADSM).
>
>We have tested the single drive AIT 4-cartridge autoloader with ADSM on NT
>and it worked well. Very small sites doing just local ( as opposed to
>network ) backup with no offsite copy requirement (i.e. they take a full
>backup every night and send those tapes off every day) it worked a treat.
>Total storage in one cartridge magazine is approx 260GB - probably large
>enough for your need however the single drive would be a restriction if you
>need to do stg pool copies. Price is really good.
>
>I now need to address sites with a profile like yours (except need to keep
>32 days worth of versions plus archives). IMHO the best solution to fully
>exploit ADSM would be a library which has 2 drives and 10 to 12 slots
giving
>(with AIT 230M tapes) approx 1TB storage. The ADIC unit looks good (rack
>mountable etc) and testing will commence soon here. I am interested in
>hearing from anybody else using AIT on NT with other vendors small
libraries
>and can share our test results if its of interest.
>
>Alan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bryan Seng Hpa <bryan AT OSIX.COM DOT AU>
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 07:16
>Subject: Any recommendations for tape drive/library:NT small environment
>
>
>>Hi ADSM-L'ers,
>>
>>Can anyone recommend a tape drive/library solution for backing up a
>>small office environment using ADSM on NT
>>
>>Daily Incrementals:
>>NT Fileserver:   3GB office documents           (in total)
>>  WinLaptops:   8 x 300MB office documents (in total)
>>   AIX Server:   1 GB    home directory           (in total)
>>keep 3 copies of each file (daily change approx 100MB max per day)
>>
>>From time-to-time I would require archiving up to about 5GB data
>>I have seen a list of supported devices for ADSM NT servers but there
>>are too many !
>>
>>Requirements:
>>Must be supported on a ADSM NT server
>>Must be reliable
>>Must be reasonably priced
>>Must support DRM (eg at least one copypool, occasional DB backups)
>>Requires minimum intervention from users to change tapes
>>
>>If I have 2 standalone drives (say 35GB DLT) can I make copypool backups
>>?
>>Tape reclamation should be OK just drop the thresholds occasionally ?
>>Are there any other gotchas ?
>>
>>
>>