[GLLUG] Tape drives

[Melson, Paul]

Is that using multiplexing (aka "multiple stream backup")?  Or is that 1
stream per client?  Cuz, to be fair, with 6 drives doing mux backups,
the client is most likely the bottleneck, whether you're using LTO,
SDLT, or AIT. :-)

Anyway, I recently visited a small company that's got about a half-dozen
Linux and Solaris servers.  They're using an ATL SuperLoader 220 w/ SDLT
220 drives and NetBackup on Linux.  Their admin couldn't say enough nice
stuff about it.  (I agree - if you're UNIX-heavy and haven't looked at
NetBackup 4.5, it's worth your time to do so.)

PaulM

-----Original Message-----
I know someone else that has a 6-drive tape library on fibre-channel and
says the
drives are extremely fast, especially when using 6 in tandem :)