Okay, Okay so my question is silly but doesn't anyone have to predict tape
usage to charge against a capital expenditure, before actually using the
tapes not after? I can easily do this for disk space but transaction logs
are a whole ballpark of its own.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joost Mulders [mailto:mail AT j-mulders.demon DOT nl]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 5:25 PM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; Yosifovski, Tammy
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Predictions for Transaction Logs
>Does anyone have a mathematical formula for predicting tape usage for
>transaction logs? Any idea on how to do this for something like this that
>has so many variables?
Hmm, let's see.
((X / (1024 ^3)) x Y) / Z) x W
Whereas:
X = The number of bytes your db's generate for transactionlogs
A nice estimation of X would be, the number of users connected
to your db x the number of keystrokes they do per day x their
intelligence factor divided by the coffee cocient, which is an index
for the quality of the coffee your company serves.
0.1 is bad coffee. 1 is very good coffee. So 0 >= X <= 1
Y = is your retention, expressed in days.
Z = is the capacity of one tape, expressed in GB's.
W = a factor expressing the quality of the backup admin.
W = 100 = Bad admin
W = 1 = Good admin
So, 1 >= W <= 100
Sorry, couldn't help it. Nothing better to do :-)
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