Howard, Patrick wrote:

At this point, then, what the best use of this 12 Drive Jukebox that I
am paying maintenance on.

  Let me ask you a few more questions:

  What is the maintenance cost of the library ?

  Can the above be described as 'throwing good money after bad money' ?

  What is the life expectancy of the library ?

I would presume then to make a storage node to hang off of my existing
master?

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Subject: Re: [Networker] Backup Master Server - Redundancy


   Why would you need a second master ?

   When was the last time a Networker server failed on you ? (I manage
Networker for almost 10 years now and I don't recall such an issue. I
have issues with tape drives, but not with the entire server).

   What is the damage (cost) of not having a backup amd restore services
to your organization for a day or two ? (My organization (a University)
can live for two days without backup or recovery till we will fix the
old hardware and re-install).

   My opinion is do risk management right. IMHO, there is no point in
creating a costly and complex redundancy just for the sake of being able
to backup (or restore) in the rare event (once every two years) that
your servers dies on you.

Howard, Patrick wrote:

Looking to bring a jukebox (STK 12 drive LTO1 SCSI) back on line (has been out for over a year), but it's going to take some justification on my part to do it. I want to get a Server and make it another Master Server. There has been talk of just making it a storage node.

I know

we wouldn't be able to inter mingle media, etc.    But I was looking

to

see if anyone had opinions on this. Repugnancy, etc. What your opinion on what we should do? Does anyone have a backup to their Master backup server?

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