Re: Where would I begin to answer these questions?
2002-02-25 21:47:43
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Re: Where would I begin to answer these questions? |
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"Seay, Paul" <seay_pd AT NAPTHEON DOT COM> |
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:42:55 -0500 |
Ike,
I have done this a little differently. What I do is identify all the cost
associated with the backup process, backup servers, additional switch
capacity, disk pools, tape drives, and libraries and add that up to a total
dollar number. Tapes are figured separately. This infrastructure will
support so many GB of disk storage on the clients involved, round numbers.
This can be used to calculate a normalized cost/GB on average. You can play
with the numbers of tapes and amount stored data per node to adjust a client
up or down. Ultimately, the cost relates to the total number of GBs. The
tape is adjusted based on the version requirements of the
application/customer.
If you come to Share in Nashville, I will show you how I do this for a tape
library solution.
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