And I stand by that presentation! ;)

Notice I did not say tape is dead.  I said tape-only backup systems are
dead.  The difference in speed between most backups and most tape drives
is too far.  IMHO, you must go to disk first to do it right.  And now
that dedupe is here and real, you can use disk for more than staging --
you can hold all onsite backups on disk for about the same cost as doing
it on tape.

---
W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies 

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of David Magda
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:31 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3.3

At LISA '06 W. Curtis Preston gave a presentation called "Seriously,  
Tape-Only Backup Systems Are Dead".

It's available online at USENIX's site:

        http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa06/tech/#friday

Though it may be of interest to the list.

On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:05, Matthew Huff wrote:
>
> Yep.
>
> We have a high-bandwidth, low latency network with enough clients and
> data to keep it going, although we will probably go from 6 x LTO-2  
> to 4
> x LTO-4.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Teresa Biehler [mailto:tpbsys AT rit DOT edu]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:01 PM
>> To: EMC NetWorker discussion; Matthew Huff
>> Subject: RE: [Networker] Upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3.3
>>
>> How do you plan to feed the LTO-4 tapes enough data to keep them busy
>> without using staging?

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