Hi All,

I just bought a F840 with 300gb usable but our growth rate is pretty rapid. One year from today the expected space usable will touch 1.5 TB. I am looking at two products for backup (using Veritas Netbackup 3.4/ data center running on a Sun Solaris 220R) that can handle it properly with good support and technology.

This is what I short listed

1. Adic Scalar 100 with AIT II Tape drives. 4 drives( 2 drives for reserved for Netapp and 2 for other stuff ....) 2. Spectra Logic Bulll frog with AIT II but few months down the line I might have to upgrade to new drives which is AIT II (whenever sony releases it ) and/or buy another box.

The tape library will be connected to Netapp using LVD running NDMP. Also the second HVD interface will be connected to 220 R which is my media server, master for netbackup.

We are a startup and don't want to burn the cash instantly. Please help me with your feedback regarding the products and their support issues, if any, good/bad, will really appreciable.

Thanks for your time for reading my e-mail/concern.

If you have any question. pl. feel free to get back to me.

Thanks,

Puneet Gulati Afara Web Systems Email : Puneet.Gulati@afara.com