Re: [Veritas-bu] D2D or Tape Libraries

Hi Rusty

Just how much Disk Space do you have available? Are we talking 5TB+ here? or More like 40TB+ of space you have?

Simon

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] D2D or Tape Libraries

We have several D2D2T system currently, running Advanced Disk and SLPs. I would never go back if I had the choice. There's nothing wrong with disk, in fact it cures many of the ills of a tape system, like slow backups which kill tape drives, speed to restore, etc. Even with dedupe, tape is still cheaper (I don't have numbers to prove this, but disk isn't cheap and neither is a dedupe system or the power to run it). If you design it right, it should work well. I would recommend making a second copy on tape because it's cheap and your a$$ will be saved when/if there's a problem with the disk array. To save some money, you could design it so that all of your images are on disk for the first week as this is when most restores occur. Keeping ALL imags on disk and not tape, and not deduping, is going to be expensive.

Remember, the more times you handle a tape and take it out of the climate controlled space of the data center, your probability for issues rises. There was someone who made a presentation at the NBU customer forum who went to a mostly disk solution, but still had tape though tapes never left the library. They had one media error in a year. Now THAT would be nice to have in any environment!

As many people have been saying for years, tape is not dead - it still has it's place.

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Subject	[Veritas-bu] D2D or Tape Libraries

All
Just wanted some views on this....

Been using Tape backups + Robots for years, and only lately things have been going wrong!
Decisions seem to be made about removing tape backups (maybe using them for monthly) and going to D2D solutions only.

Anyone got views on this? Pros or cons?

I do not mind D2D but I also like the "feel" of Tapes and storing them outside a site in a secure safe! Cannot do that with a EVA System !

Note: D2D is not to go to tape, remains on disk until it expires.

Regards

Simon

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