Re: DISK BASED BACKUP

2010-04-07 Thread Jon Harris
*Subject:* Re: DISK BASED BACKUP Go with the native tools in Windows 2008 and use disks instead. Depending on which 2008 you can do different things. R2 is better than the orginal. If the entire server is less than a TB then a simple USB drive. Jon On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Murray

Re: DISK BASED BACKUP

2010-04-07 Thread jgarciaitlist
@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: DISK BASED BACKUP I was able to do 1 TB to a USB drive in less than 8 hours while the machines were live. That would depend on how you do the work and the version of USB you are using. YMMV Jon On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Murray Freeman mfree

Re: DISK BASED BACKUP

2010-04-06 Thread Jon Harris
Go with the native tools in Windows 2008 and use disks instead. Depending on which 2008 you can do different things. R2 is better than the orginal. If the entire server is less than a TB then a simple USB drive. Jon On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Murray Freeman mfree...@alanet.org wrote:

RE: DISK BASED BACKUP

2010-04-06 Thread Murray Freeman
:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DISK BASED BACKUP Go with the native tools in Windows 2008 and use disks instead. Depending on which 2008 you can do different things. R2 is better than the orginal. If the entire server is less than a TB then a simple USB drive. Jon On Tue, Apr

RE: DISK BASED BACKUP

2010-04-06 Thread Sam Cayze
Perhaps eSATA then. From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DISK BASED BACKUP I do have multiple servers to be backed up, so I suspect that the USB interface may be too

Re: DISK BASED BACKUP

2010-04-06 Thread S Conn.
I use Netbackup and vRanger (ESX) for backups at 2 different sites. I hate tapes, so I just set up some iSCSI LUNs and back up to that. Once a week we copy the Netbackup (or vRanger) images to a couple large USB drivse and send them offsite. Works pretty well. Actual file copies can be slow, so

Re: DISK BASED BACKUP

2010-04-06 Thread Joseph Heaton
We're getting ready to test Dell RD-1000 devices, both exernal and internal. The normal external is USB-connected SATA drive, but we've been told we could get a SAS connection, also. We're using Commvault for our backup software, but I wouldn't suggest that if you're a small shop; stick to

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-21 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
Sorry, I didn't know what i was thinking about...I meant LTO5 that they will be release in the coming year... --- El mié, 16/9/09, Miguel Gonzalez miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es escribió: De: Miguel Gonzalez miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es Asunto: RE: Disk based backup Para: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
What makes you think they don't today? -sc -Original Message- From: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:tom.alver...@ngc.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup All they need to do is upgrade the (on-board) controllers

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-18 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
-Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup What makes you think they don't today? -sc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http

Re: Disk based backup

2009-09-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us wrote: Keep an eye on Sata, Sata3 is coming fast and the speed will a HUGE difference. Modern hard drives can sustain, what, maybe 0.4 to 0.6 Gbit/sec? Even the 3 Gbit/sec we have now is much higher than that. How is

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-17 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
, September 17, 2009 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk based backup On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us wrote: Keep an eye on Sata, Sata3 is coming fast and the speed will a HUGE difference. Modern hard drives can sustain, what, maybe

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-16 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
to a more reliable RAID array with a robot. It always depends on your budget. Regards, Miguel --- El mié, 16/9/09, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com escribió: De: Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com Asunto: RE: Disk based backup Para: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

Re: Disk based backup

2009-09-16 Thread Phillip Partipilo
2009 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup Wow! Had no idea. I've been on eSATA drives for years now, ditched tapes for the speed and reliability. Ken, do the restore speeds also show this type of performance? Because ultimately that's what matters, right

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
LTO4 has been around for a couple of years. Are you thinking LTO5? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup are LTO4 already in the market

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-16 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
So get a workstation with a 4 bay sata hot swap. Basically for the price I would take a handful of sata drives over tapes. By the time you get a fast library that can keep up your in the multi thousands. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-16 Thread Erik Goldoff
, 2009 11:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup USB connected drives are way too slow. LTO4 alone should get you 5x-6x the speed of a USB connected drive (YMMV) Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-16 Thread Eldridge, Dave
AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup But now wouldn't eSATA be a good alternative ? I haven't benchmarked throughput but *should* be as good as internal, right ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Uh... ya. -sc -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup are LTO4 already in the market? We are getting info that won't be available until

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
[mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Thursday, 17 September 2009 12:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup You would think esata throughput would be much better. I am looking at a promise tx4302 pci card that specs 3gb/sec for esata. This is for both the internal connectors

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-16 Thread Terry Dickson
System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup That's simply the maximum burst throughput range of SATA2 (original SATA was 1.5gbps). There is no way that a single disk can deliver that throughput. My testing (YMMV) is that eSATA will give you about 1.5x the speed of USB2 Cheers Ken

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Evan Brastow
time and help! Evan From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 9:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk based backup Do you want to do pure D2D? Or would you want to look at Virtual Tape? Do you have any plans for off-site storage

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Richard Stovall
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup Hi guys, I wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions... I looked at Exagrid, DataDoimain and FalconStor, and I think I left out a key fact in my email... budget! My apologies! Exagrid and DataDomain were in the $18k to $22k range

Re: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Devin Meade
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 9:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk based backup Do you want to do pure D2D?   Or would you want to look at Virtual Tape? Do you have any plans for off-site storage?  Or will you

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Why not just take some external drives and mount them in whatever you use (BEX/UB etc) and rotate the drives. At 79 bucks for a 1TB SATA, or 89 for a USB version, you could do a 5 day rotation for 2 weeks for 900 dollars if you can get the data on 1tb. If you want to be more involved do the

Re: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Jonathan Link
USB Drives fast? On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: Why not just take some external drives and mount them in whatever you use (BEX/UB etc) and rotate the drives. At 79 bucks for a 1TB SATA, or 89 for a USB version, you could do a 5 day

Re: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: USB Drives fast? For random access vs. tape? Sure! Sustained write throughput, not so much... :-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
: Disk based backup Why not just take some external drives and mount them in whatever you use (BEX/UB etc) and rotate the drives. At 79 bucks for a 1TB SATA, or 89 for a USB version, you could do a 5 day rotation for 2 weeks for 900 dollars if you can get the data on 1tb. If you want to be more

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Sam Cayze
] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup USB connected drives are way too slow. LTO4 alone should get you 5x-6x the speed of a USB connected drive (YMMV) Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup USB connected drives are way too slow. LTO4 alone should get you 5x-6x the speed of a USB connected drive (YMMV) Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Sam Cayze
: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup eSata will be about 1.5x what you can get with USB only (assuming you are copying to a single target disk). I've generally found that USB2 peaks

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Raper, Jonathan
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RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Martin Blackstone
Check out Data Domain. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk based backup Hi guys, I did a search on subject headings for this year to see if I could find anything about this, but

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Richard Stovall
...@gmail.com] Sent: Mon 9/14/2009 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup Check out Data Domain. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk based backup Hi guys, I did

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Marty Nelson
-software.com Subject: RE: Disk based backup +1 We have a DD530 here and it has been well worth the cost. A quick glance at the nightly emails shows that I threw about 2.8TB of raw data at it last Friday that took about 50GB or so of actual disk space. From: Martin

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Chyka, Robert
Exagrid! From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 6:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk based backup Hi guys, I did a search on subject headings for this year to see if I could find anything

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-14 Thread Raper, Jonathan
...@researchdata.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 7:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup +1 We have a DD530 here and it has been well worth the cost. A quick glance at the nightly emails shows that I threw about 2.8TB of raw data at it last Friday that took about