Thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure if we can do FC or not. I'm looking at going ISCSI with the SAN as we don't have any FC infrastructure currently, and from what I understand, it would be prohibitively expensive to set up any. That being said, I'm looking at possibly hanging the tape library/autoloader off one of our servers with a SAS HBA to off-load some of the work (not that our dual-quad-core system would likely even notice! J)
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backing up SAN to tape We are moving to CommVault with our SAN. NDMP option with direct FC connection to SAN if at all possible. -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backing up SAN to tape Ok. looking for software suggestions for backing up a SAN to tape. Yes, I know it would take forever to restore several terabytes of data, but I'd like to have some sort of "oh, crap! My san died" back up. J Speed of restore is not an issue, simply being able to restore is the issue. I'm looking at a Dell LTO5 tape library and the two options for backup software that *they* offer are CommVault and Symantec Backup Exec. Which of those two would you prefer to use, and which *specific* variety of the specified software would you recommend for backing up a SAN? We will likely be using the SAN for the back-end storage for email (eventually,) but will likely NOT be using MS Exchange (we're a small shop - less than 200 email addresses, and Exchange is too pricey for us!) We will likely be using Kerio Mail Server whenever we bring email in-house. Other than that, it's mainly going to be people's "My Documents" redirected to the shared storage on the SAN, install archives for software and such. John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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