All F700 series machines have a built-in F/W differential controller for up to 2 locally attached tape drives.
With 5.3 & later, you can purchase a 2nd controller for the F760 and connect up to 4 locally attached tape drives.
--tmac
Vance Huntley wrote:
Hi all.
We have several F740's with about 400GB each, and we are reexcamining our backup strategy. I would prefer a centralized, network backup over a dedicated backup network. We've heard rumours that the only reasonable way to backup filers is using a locally attached DLT drive, and that we must buy an expensive ($700) NetApp SCSI controller card before we attempt to do a local backup. Does this make sense to you all? What is the conventional wisdom on the ideal way to backup multiple filers?
Vance
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