Hi Paul, While I don't have any real world experience dealing with this, W. Curtis Preston mentions it specifically here:
http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/feature/LTO-tape-technology-continues-to-evolve-with-LTO-5 He wrote the book (literally) on backup. If anyone can answer your questions, he can. http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/feature/W-Curtis-Preston-Articles-and-podcasts-on-data-backup-and-recovery http://www.amazon.com/Backup-Recovery-W-Curtis-Preston/dp/0596102461/backupcentral http://www.backupcentral.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=184 Jonathan 2011/8/29 Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> > I'm looking at replacing our backup server. We're dumping around 12tb to > tape each week so I'm keen on LTO5 to get the tape count down. > > Part of speccing up the backup server will be to get good throughput from > the disk array, but once you throw in pulling the data from deduplicated > source disk there are quite a few variables. > > Does anyone have any real-world experience of LTO5 drives and at what > point things like shoe-shining starts to be come a potential issue? > > Paul > ------------------------------ > *MIRA Ltd* > > Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England > Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 > VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 > > The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of > the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete > it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, > forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is > prohibited. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > -- Jonathan, A+, MCSA, MCSE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
