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Re: [Networker] Most Popular Backup Tapes
2006-05-24 14:50:09
On May 24, 2006, at 2:36 PM — 5/24/06, E Gold wrote:
I am building a new backup server with all new hardware.
Which type of tapes are most popular to use?
I cannot decide to use LTO or DLT, which should I choose?
Popularity has nothing to do with it. Make the selection based on
your budget and backup requirements.
We are using Sony S-AIT tapes here. We have been using that medium
for about the past 1.5 years and it
works out well for us. We spent a lot of time investigating this
question and we decided on a Sony PetaSite
tape library connected via fibre channel to a Sunfire v480 with
Solaris 9. This is working out well for us.
S-AIT is rated to hold up to 1.3TB per tape cartridge and the rated
throughput is so high that I have never
seen any of our 13 S-AIT tape drives at the rate they are capable of
because we cannot push the data fast
enough. In our environment, we usually average about 800-900GB per
cartridge.
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