a) Why don't you try AIT II instead of DLT. I am getting excellant performance on those 8 mm. Writing more that 100 GB per tape. We are using Qualstar and spectra logic tape libraries.

b) Veritas seems to be OK. With lot of limitations and bugs. I have heard of a better s/w from www.worksta.com

c) You may use a Vixel Fibre channal switch with fibre channal interfaces on the concerened servers and the Filers. This will enable accessing tpaes from anywhere.

-----Original Message----- From: Stephen J. Wilcox [mailto:steve@opaltelecom.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 1:07 AM To: neil lehrer Cc: toasters Subject: Re: dlt autoloaders

Actually on that subject I am looking to buy a system soon, I'm thinking of getting an HP surestore library and using Veritas. Theres a lot of systems to back up altho they dont have that much data on them, then I have (for now 1) netfiler, does anyone

a) think surestore are good? b) think veritas is good? c) know if i can do anything to save time by directly connecting the tape library to the filer hence bypassing the server but still keeping the tape accessible from the server in order to do my network backups?

Steve

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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, neil lehrer wrote:

hi,

i'd like recommendations for a dlt autoloader to be attached to an f760 and controlled by legato. thanks. --