As others have said, it depends.  I am using a 3466/NSM which is an AIX
F50.  It comes with 2 processors upgrade to 4.

You need enough disk space to 'stage' a days worth of backups
if you're backing up small systems.  Or go directly to tape for very large
DLT is good for that but from my experience I would recommend staying away
from DLT if you have a lot of small systems to backup and plan to be
agressive about restore performance by using collocation and a lot of
reclaims.  ... etc.

You're welcome tocall me to chat if you like more info.
   ... joe.f.


Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
1-510-642-7638

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Katherine Faella wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It looks like we will be moving our *SM server from OS/390 to AIX.  We are
> currently trying to determine what hardware will best suits our needs.  If
> anyone can help me, especially in the area of tape drives and tape media, I
> would surely appreciate it.
> Thanks,
> Kathy Faella
>
>
> Katherine Faella                        kmf AT uri DOT edu
> Senior Technical Programmer
> University of Rhode Island
> Kingston, RI  02881                     (401) 874-4469
>