From: Nick Pettefar (Nick@Pettefar.com)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 07:50:01 EDT
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic but I am getting desperate.
I need to buy a backup system for our RAIDs. I have about $9000 to spend
and I want it to be able to back up at least 1.5TB unattended.
I have been offered a Sun StorEdge L8 with LTO2 together with Veritas
NetBackup Business Server (10 clients) for under this sum. I have also
been offered the Sony AIT 3 LIB-162 autoloader and the NEC-LTO2AL/10. I
could buy BakBone NetVault 7.1 Workgroup Edition or I could use Amanda.
The pluspoints of the Sun option is that it is all Sun and I can gain valuable
NetBackup experience. The Sony machine is very nice and I have been told good
things about the AIT 3 tape format. The NEC LTO2 machine has a 7 tape magazine
as well as three individual tape slots and so is easier to load or unload. I
have no experience of Amanda and don't know if NetBackup is better or worse.
I have the choice of a Sun Blade 150 650MHz and 1GB RAM, an E450 with twin
400MHz processors and 2GB RAM or a Dell 2.8GHz PC with Solaris 9 to run the
backup software on.
If you have any experience of any of the above, I would appreciate your input.
The Sun special EDU offer is only open until this Friday so I have to hurry if
I want to take advantage of this!
Regards,
Nick
Nick Pettefar Nick@Pettefar.com DoD 1069 MAG 73516 Bros 650 ZZR1100D
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