On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Ravi Kumar Tenneti<[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Please let me know the solution for this. I have posted this to Openfiler > forums also but thought of knowing if any other alternatives are available > from you all.
I had to deal with a similar issue about 4 years ago more for affordable DR. Route that I took was: 1. Get a server with hot swap drive bays. 2. Get 18 drives. (300GB) 3. Use one drive per week for weekly backup, rotated every month. 4. One drive per month backup, rotated every year. 5. One drive always available as spare. Ours' was a development environment and not a DB application. We needed to backup code from 5 locations worldwide and this was resorted to. I'd think going with (hot) swap drive is more robust as it is not as quirky as tapes and allows faster access to small chunks as compared to tapes. My view on tapes could be tainted by dated experience. I've not tried recent technologies like Ultrium and the likes. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
