When we investigated this we decided that the inability to have more than
one networker process using the same disk at the same time made it
inpractable - you couldn't clear space off the disk (to tape) whilst a
backup was in progress so a disk would have to be specced for the biggest
possible backup, however it was quicker than tape and we are hoping that
Networker 7 will have improved the situation.

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:24:46 -0500, Lancy Quadros <Quadrosl AT ROTARYINTL DOT 
ORG>
wrote:

>I am looking into replacing our backup gear. Our original project was to
buy a larger tape library, then I came across an article in the Storage
magazine ( Jun '02) by Curtis Preston that discussed disk-to-disk backups.
The idea of having to do fast backups and restores on an inexpensive disk
array sounds promising.
>
>I was wondering if any of you have implemented this scenario in production
and how their experiences (good and bad) have been.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lancy
>
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