I'm sure. If you haven't had the opportunity to hear him in person, it would be worth it if you can figure out a way. I was able to attend one of the TechTarget backup roadshow events a couple of years ago and he was the main presenter. Worth every bit of my time, for sure.
And I got a free book out of it! Jonathan On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks Jonathan. That first link was pretty much my first match on > Google :) > > I've been looking at some drive specs and I was a little surprised that > even LTO5 drives seem to have a minimum data rate of "only" 40Mb/Sec. I'd > assumed it would be something like double that tbh, but if it is only > 40Mb/Sec that's not so much of a concern since I'm aiming to be able to pull > the data way faster than that. > > Paul > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jonathan [[email protected]] > *Sent:* 29 August 2011 6:22 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: LTO5 - shoe-shining? > > 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 > > ~ 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
