RE: Hardware...

I am using Retrospect by EMC. Yes, the combination or hardware and software=
 reports what tapes in my rotation are currently used and a database of bac=
kups is maintained to determine the necessary tape should a restore be nece=
ssary. It is important as my backups are currently spanning multiple tapes =
per night. I have been testing an add-on module that facilitates disaster r=
ecovery on a workstation from tape. I'd recommend the combination for Windo=
ws and it also works well for the Macs (OSX) in the mix minus the disaster =
recovery (Windows only) - I don't know how well things work with Linux.

Also, somewhere in this thread someone mentioned the "perk" of the drive re=
cognizing the tapes. This combination does that. I load a set of tapes into=
 the drive and it spends a few minutes identifying them and determining if =
the appropriate tapes are available for the next backup.

-Jamie

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Jamie Hushower
Computer Consultant
Rent-A-Geek
http://alaska-geeks.com
223-9136

-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf Of D=
amien Hull
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 8:00 PM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: Hardware...

I've been wanting one of these. It is a little pricey but it gets the=20
job done. I don't have enough data to justify get one. One of these days.

I do have a few questions.

   1. What tape backup software are you using?
   2. Does the backup hardware/software know what tapes are part of the
      data set.
         1. Thinking of data going on more then one tape
         2. Restoring from 2 or more tapes

Jamie Hushower wrote:
> I have recently (1 month) purchased an Exabyte VXA-320 10-tape loader for=
 a=3D
> client and am happy with it in every regard. I would guess the non-tape-=
sw=3D
> itching version would be of similar speed and quality. Incidentally, I am=
 u=3D
> sing the device to backup 750GB of data nightly. Graphics company...
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