We have 25 IBM LTO2 drives in an STK L5500 that initially would move to 
this environment. Eventually a total of 50 drives would be available as 
we move through conversion. The tape is for off-site copy; the primary 
backup will be on ~30TB of Clariion ATA spindles. Another 50TB of disk 
would be moved, too.

Gary

On Oct 7, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Hall, Christian N. wrote:

>  What tpye of tape drives do you intend on using ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Aulfinger [mailto:gja AT fedex DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 5:29 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] How Many Media Servers?
>
> We are architecting a new backup environment, moving away from a 
> competing
> product. Our plan has HP rp4440's as an HA pair for the master server, 
> and
> RedHat EL3.0 on HP DL380's for media servers. We are expecting each 
> media
> server to back up about 1TB per night via multiple gig-E to 
> fiber-attached
> Clariion disk arrays. Based on the amount of data to back up, we're 
> planning
> on eight media servers. The question is, can a single Media server 
> handle
> that many media servers at that density?
>
> We're projecting a catalog size of about 150-200GB when it's all 
> converted.
>
> Thanks for any input,
> Gary Aulfinger
> gja AT fedex DOT com
>
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