----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Tao taob@risc.org To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 10:50 PM Subject: Centralized backup of multiple filers
This is my plan, after having debated the merits of distributedtape libraries on each filer vs. centralized tape library with network backup.
Have you considered Netapp's recently announced ability to share backup devices between filers through a FC SAN using Legato and a Vixel switch? But I guess this doesn't address your problem, which seems to be streaming speed to the tape to minimize backup times. Personally I think you're spending a lot of money just to make backups faster, and I'm not even sure how much time that saves, since you have to spend time to do the rsync over the net first, and then do the local backup from the UNIX box.
Bruce