Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
But it was a hard fight to convince them to do backups parallel
to their raid-5 array.
Their argument: why backup, we have raid
rm -rf /
Yep, that was my final argument too
Hi,
if i had to decide what to do, i would do both, a) and b).
Why? you won't beleave it, but a few weeks ago at one of
our customers 2 of 3 drives in a scsi raid5-array died in a
periode of half an hour.
They where more then happy having all their data on tape,
and back on a replacement-disk in
But it was a hard fight to convince them to do backups parallel
to their raid-5 array.
Their argument: why backup, we have raid
rm -rf /
Hi,
I am not shure, I understood, what amanda is able to do:
in the company I have
2 Win NT Server 4 SP6
1 Novell 3.12
1 Digital Alpha DEC/OSF
1 Win NT 4 Workstation (is to be changed to SUSE 7.3)
1 SuSE e-Mail Server II
Most of them have a tape drive and do their backups. But most of these
I recommend either:
a) spend REAL BIG money on adequate tape library with at least 10 8mm tapes (AIT-2,
for example).
or
b) spend much smaller amount of money on large RAID-5 array of many many gigabytes
using 3ware IDE card and cheap IDE disks... then back up to disk and forget the
On Monday 13 May 2002 06:08 pm, John Koenig wrote:
I recommend either:
a) spend REAL BIG money on adequate tape library with at least
10 8mm tapes (AIT-2, for example).
or
b) spend much smaller amount of money on large RAID-5 array of
many many gigabytes using 3ware IDE card and cheap IDE
