Actually, there is a copper FC HBA on the back of the 250 for doing NDMP or regular dumps directly to tape. If you need to use an non-FC library/tape drive, most library vendors will sell a converter for not too much money.

Alternatively, you can backup from CIFS/NFS shares.

--paul

-----Original Message----- From: Tim Longo [mailto:tlongo@avaya.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:17 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: migrating from 740

Greetings,

I am currently running a F740 with about 1 terabyte of raw storage at about 50% utilization. I'm beginning to look into an replacemnt, perhaps an FAS250 or FAS270.

At this point, I have a HVD SCSI connection going from my filer to a tape library for backups. The FAS250 etc, don't have a SCSI connectors, so I've been told I would need a converter from Ethernet to SCSI.

Anyone using a converter for this purpose? How are people with the FAS250 backing up their systems? Any other thoughts or suggestions also welcome.

Thanks.