[Sunhelp] Tape library recommendations

[Doug McLaren]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:25:20PM -0400, Scott Walker wrote:

| Wow you get cheap hardware...
| 
| My last place bought a system to back up roughly 200-300GB of data, and cost us
| $140,000

Sounds more like you got excessively expensive hardware.

If somebody doesn't mind swapping 8 tapes or so to do a full backup,
300gb of data could be backed up with a single 40gb DLT drive.

After that, you may find that incrementals fit on a single tape
(depending on your setup, of course.)

I haven't priced DLT drives, but I imagine you can get such a drive
for well under $3000.

Or you can get the 60gb AME drives (such as the CY-8960.)  Either way,
putting 300gb on these shouldn't be a problem (especially if it
compresses well -- I've been giving uncompressed capacities.)

You may want something that's will work with less human intervention,
but you'll pay for it.  But they shouldn't cost $140k.

Of course, you'll then need a system for this, and software, but none
of that costs anywhere near $140k.

-- 
Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzy.com
Money isn't everything, but at least it keeps the kids in touch.