Well, for one it uses the disks as virtual tape and dumps these large
image files for every job. So you end up needing as many TB of disk
space as you needed tapes. You cannot afford to keep a month's worth of
data on disk, at least not for us. We have 12 TB of storage that needs
to be backed up every day.
Have you seen products from Data Domain or NetApp's SnapVault ? These
are nice but even these force you to use their disks arrays. 
Wish there was a software or an appliance that would allow you to
attach any disk
array you want but will intelligently compress your backups such that
they keep only one instance of a file and keep track of just the
changed fragments.
-G
BTW, I don't work for either of these companies.



On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:19:52 -0400 (EDT), Steve Quan <sq01 AT yorku DOT ca> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you explain why (re:efficency) ?
>
> Thanks,
> /Steve
> ---
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Sto Rage©  wrote:
>
> > We have a lot of ATABoy and ATABeast units. But none of them are being
> > used with Veritas for disk backups. We use them for online archives.
> > We think Veritas's backup to disk is an inefficient solution.
> >
> > -G
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:32:02 -0400, dyankowski AT cits.canon DOT com
> > <dyankowski AT cits.canon DOT com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone every use a Nexsan ATABoy with Veritas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
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