Admin wizards,
We are in the process of buying a GS80 server for a new system(Oracle
database) on an RA-8000 SAN. I am still working on the backup strategy,
but here is a thumbnail sketch. We have one DLT891 tape library to back up
all our servers, both Unix and Windows. I plan to hook up the tape library
to a Windows machine, use Samba to map the Windows machine to the Unix
server, use the AdvFs utilities to take a snapshot of the database for
backups, then use ArcServe to back up the snapshot to the tape library.
My question isn't about the backup plan, although I welcome any
suggestions. Compaq wants to sell us their SANworks Enterprise Volume
Manager software for the snapshots. Can anybody tell me the advantages, if
any, of purchasing the SANworks software in addition to the AdvFs
utilities? I hate to buy EVM if AdvFs can do the job just as well.
Thank you,
Kimberly Hondel Agle
kimberly_agle_at_fccourts.org
Received on Fri Aug 03 2001 - 19:05:58 NZST