On Thursday 03 January 2008, Richard Sims wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2008, at 4:23 AM, Stef Coene wrote:
> > ...
> > For the storage, help :)  I want to biggest possible backup speed
> > and more
> > important, restore speed.  Most imporant data is oracle database,
> > so big
> > amounts of data (not much small files).
> >
> > I can go for DISK or for FILE device classes. ...
>
> Stef -
>
> I would generally recommend tape:
> Where few, large files are involved, the tape is going to operate in
> streaming mode, where it is most efficient, and therein tape is
> usually faster than random access disk, depending upon the drive
> types you are using there.
No tape, backup to disk.  Customer don't want a tape library (we have a small
one for offsite tapes) and don't want (to pay for) a VTL.


Stef