Doug McIntyre wrote:

> Wayne Rasmussen <XvirtualDoNotSpamMe@gomonarch.com> writes:
> >Our buyer is looking for options. Currently he is getting from sun a
> >scsi card and a 20/40 gb tape drive for backing up systems. He said the
> >tape drive is $1500.00 or so and wants to find a cheaper alternative.
>
> Well, you could get cheaper SCSI tape drives. Sounds like a 4mm DAT,
> which should be available in lots of different places.
>
> http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/Resul...=all&x=0 &y=0
>
> SCSI is probably going to be your best interface option in most
> cases. Depending on what you are using for backup software, you could
> go with pretty much any SCSI external tape solution you want. This
> won't get you down into the areas of the IDE Travan tape drives, but
> is better than $1500.
>
> >What are other people doing? Also, some systems might be getting an 80
> >GB hard drive instead of the 40.
>
> How about backing it up over the network connection with an enterprise
> tape backup solution? Get one big tape library, and a machine that
> sucks it all down and stores it out to tape in a library? Software
> gets a little expensive (well, there is an opensource one, Amanda) on
> this solution, but it sure is nice in the end.

A network storage might be possible in some environments that we have. But there might
be some legal/proceedural issues involved with that. The particular customer in question
has a 10year old machine running 4.1.4 on it. Now he wants to upgrade, but the new
system will still be standalone.

Amanda is an option to look at in the future. Just need more time...