Good morning!

        I'm hoping that you guys can help me out.  Our maintenance on our
StorageTek L700e library is running out the end of November and management
wants to look at the possibility of replacing it *and* our old ATL P3000
library with a single system that can encompass everything.  I know that the
STK has 7 LTO1 drives, and the ATL has 7 DLTIV drives (I think).  What
possible library technologies should I start looking at (this is an arena
I'm very new to, and don't have much experience... We used an optical
library at Qualcomm, and DLT everywhere else)?  Someone mentioned SAIT, and
I ran screaming from the room.  Isn't this the technology that made you
restore from the same drive you backed up on?  I would *hope* that it's
become fairly sophisticated if it's in a library, but still!

        This system would also require the replacement of our master server,
which is currently a Sunfire 250 running Solaris 7.  It would integrate into
an EMC Clariion SAN, a NetApp Filer, and both Windows and *nix clients.  So
what kind of horsepower should we shoot for when replacing this puppy?  And
does Netbackup Enterprise 5.1 run on Linux RedHat 9?

        I'm rather partial to the notion of upgrading our LTO1 drives to
LTO2s, adding 7 more drives, or something like that.. But not being an
expert, I'm lost.  What have you guys had the best luck with?

Thanks so much!

Jennifer

Jennifer Hooper
Peregrine Systems, Inc.
San Diego, CA