First, let me say thanks to everyone who responded.
Second, it appears that there are no stand alone FC drives on the market now. There are a couple of drives that have native FC support (LTO-2 and STK 9xxx), but they are available only as a part of a library configuration.
So in our situation, it looks like we'll just attach the tape drives to the Sun server and back everything up via NFS (hope they don't want CIFS data on the filer!), or they'll have to open the pocket book a bit wider and buy a small autoloader or library.
Thanks again for all the responses!
Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Hardin Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:39 PM To: toasters Subject: backup question
I am getting a FAS270c for a small project. The users are concernedabout the data security and do not want the data to cross the wire to our current backup solution. So, we're limited to a couple of direct attached tape drives on the FAS270 because the amount of data does not justify a small library. Is there anyone else out there doing this? What did you use? I can't find any stand alone FC (optical) tape drives.
Thanks for the help!
Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.