Backup media/software advice needed
Joe Grant
grant at cft.philips.nl
Fri Jun 15 23:49:49 AEST 1990
Hello Net,
I need some advice about backup media. I was considering using
Tops over Ethernet to backup on our Sun (some of you may have
seen a posting I made a few days back), but naturally enough our
Sun sys. admin. isn't that happy about the extra work, so I now
need to investigate other possibilities. I have been considering
tape streamers and removable hard disks. So far I have contacted
the local Procom Technology dealer, and have been quoted very
similar prices for a PMT60/M 60MB tape streamer and a MRD40/M
42MB removable hard disk, so the two options don't seem so far
apart. What I really need to know is:
1) Have people found the Procom products reliable?
2) Is there a standard stream tape format - i.e. can tapes
written by one manufacturers streamer be read by another?
3) Is there a good reason why I shouldn't use the removable?
4) What other manufacturers should I look at.
I don't envisage heavy usage, monthly backups of two 80Mb disks
with weekly incrementals is currently my only requirement, plus some
archiving of bits and pieces from the net, so a simple, reliable, and
cheap solution is what I need :-).
Coupled with the hardware question, is, naturally enough, a software
question. What backup software to use? I'd like to have the backup
run automatically, be able to select files and folders for backup and
restore, and be able to restore to a different location/machine than
the original. And now for the "piece of resistance" as we fluent
franglais speakers would say, we are also running A/UX. Ideally I would
like to be able to simply dump the complete A/UX partitions to the
tape/removable, and control the tape/removable from within A/UX for
tar purposes. It's this last requirement that I'm most concerned
about with regard to the removable hard disk.
Anyway, all help would be appreciated, including opinions, related
experience, advice on venders to contact etc...
Joe Grant.
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