On Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:56:51 EST Rick Tsujimoto said:
> >Anyone heard about the Openvision press release,
>
> >Apparently they are able to back up about 504 gigabytes of data,
> >(oracle database) using their netbackup product.
>
> >Sounds good, we use adsmpipe and get at most 10 gigabytes an hour at
> >most, even if Openvision are being a bit optimistic, even 200 gb an
> >hour sounds great.
>
> >We will be attempting to backup 14 Tb databases next year
> >it will take us a year to do!!!!
>
>
> >Any plans to make ADSM fster would be great !!
>
> If my math is correct, we're talking about 150megabytes per second.
> Hmm, that's the most suspicious thing I ever heard :-)
>
> What're using for a comm link? Memory-to-memory? Even if you stated
> megabits, it's still fishy.
Without knowing anything about the OpenVision stuff, it IS possible to
achieve these types of storage rates by using parallel I/O techniques
and multiple systems, disks, tapes, and i/o paths. I don't know if that is
what OV is doing, but I suspect it probably is based on the rates quoted.
..Paul
Paul Zarnowski Phone: 607/255-4757
Cornell Information Technologies Fax: 607/255-6523
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