On Jan 3, 2008, at 4:23 AM, Stef Coene wrote:

...
For the storage, help :)  I want to biggest possible backup speed
and more
important, restore speed.  Most imporant data is oracle database,
so big
amounts of data (not much small files).

I can go for DISK or for FILE device classes. ...

Stef -

I would generally recommend tape:
Where few, large files are involved, the tape is going to operate in
streaming mode, where it is most efficient, and therein tape is
usually faster than random access disk, depending upon the drive
types you are using there.

  Richard Sims          http://people.bu.edu/rbs/