DLT, DEC or Quantum?

From: Brian James O'Connor <boc_at_ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:45:37 +1100 (EST)

Hi,
   we are considering moving to a DLT drive to backup a rapidly
growing raid array on a AS 2100(4/200).
Currently its at 12GB, but once we bring the other two ports in to
use that will probably grow to:

swxcr 230 raid array(three port pci)
7x2GB 12GB(current)
7x4GB 24GB
7x4GB 24GB
     -----
      60GB at least

currently I'm switching tapes all day with a tlz06 dat drive!

Are the DEC DLT drives as good as the Quantum DLT drives?

What are your experiences with using Quantum DLTs with a Alphaserver?
and apart from the usual UNIX tools(dump,tar) what is the best s/w to
use with the DLT's , this must include the capablity for restoring
from a total system crash.(ie if the root partition is fried do I have to
restore with dump, and am I stuck with having to use the tlzo6 to do this)

What about libraries?

Whew what a grab bag of questions, in general I guess, what do people think
of DLT as the primary backup solution?


TIA
boc
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        Brian O'Connor, Unix Systems Consultant
              Latrobe University,Bendigo
          boc_at_ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au
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Received on Mon Dec 09 1996 - 08:04:30 NZDT

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