I am soliciting knowledgable opinions on the use of DEC Network Save and
Restore (NSR) product to backup a heterogeanous environment. We have the
following servers to backup:
1 Alpha 8200 w/ 40Gb of drive located on a SW800 (hsz40 w/ 32MB wbc)
1 Alpha 2100 w/ 60Gb of drive located on a SW800 (hsz40 w/ 32MB wbc)
1 Alpha 2100 w/ 8Gb of drive located on a StorComp Raid-7 (128Mb Cache)
1 Sun Sparc 20 w/ 40Gb of drive located on a SW300 (hsz40 w/ 32MB wbc)
1 Sun Sparc 5 w/ 2 Gb of drive located on internal drives
2 HP9000 w/ 8Gb of drive shared (failover)
All of these servers are within one facility. My current plan is to attempt to
connect all with 100MB FDDI and put a TL810 (w/ 4 TZ87) Tape subsystem. This
system would be connected to the Alpha 8200 and the other servers would backup
via network.
The problem I have with formulating a solution is that no one to date has been
able to indicate the throughput possible using 100MB FDDI. I know this is very
subjective (depends on network traffic, drive layout, how often data changes,
etc.) but if someone has at least tested two machines on their own FDDI ring
to achieve a "pie in the sky" value, the information would be valuable.
Additionally, if anyone else has opinions such as "I would'nt trust NSR with my
competitors data" or "you should really look at XYZ" that information would be
of value also.
Thanks in advance!
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| Jonathan Craig |
| Gordon Food Service |
| 333 Fiftieth Street, SW |
| Grand Rapids, MI 49548 |
| AKA: jcraig_at_gfs.com |
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Received on Thu Dec 14 1995 - 23:33:09 NZDT