[Veritas-bu] 9840 tape drive question
2003-07-31 09:41:01
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[Veritas-bu] 9840 tape drive question |
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joe AT spamcop DOT net (Johnny Oestergaard) |
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Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:41:01 +0200 |
I don't think you will get that performance out of the drives in a mixed
installation.
On very large files it should work, but on normal fileservers you will have
to have a lot of multiplexing to get it.
If you don't need the extremely fast loadtime and positioning of the 9840B
drives I would look into 9940B. They are faster (except for load and
positioning) and they can hold a lot more data per tape.
We use our 9940B's in a windows only installation, but if you have a lot of
data I would look into using Solaris for the master and media servers.
I would also go for a FC only solution.
/johnny
At 17:18 30-07-2003 -0500, Letnes, David G. wrote:
> I am trying to calculate how many drives it will take to backup our data
>for a new silo we are pricing out. The tape drives will be 9840's and I am
>using the max speed of 18 MBps which is about 65 Gig an hour? The formula
>I am using looks like this...
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> Backup Data Volume
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>= How many drives you will need
> Tape drive throughput * backup window
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>The speed I rated the 9840 tape drive; is that about 65 Gig an hour?
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>Are there any other formulas people use to determine how many tape drives
>you will need?
>
>Thanks
>David
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