Re: Backing Up advice needed please

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Ive sold a couple of the dell 400/800 ultriums and they are GREAT! DAT flat
out sucks, I've only been a fan of DLT or Ultirum but with the latest price
drop you can get an external pretty cost effective. I wouldn't put it in a
workstation but get an external and attach ot your 2850 at about $3000 and
you can easily carry it over to your next server and have it last you 5 +
years. Everything I sell server related I shoot for a 5 year life and since
external can be easily moved to another server, a big plus.


"Alex" <alexdeletethishammerstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi we currently have a DAT72 drive built into our Poweredge 2850 rack
server. Unfortunately we can only get about 40GB backed up and this is
now not enough.

There are all sorts of options I know but the three being suggested are:

1. Get a new rack mount with a further DAT72 drive in it and transfer the
driver for the serve to this mount, effectively doubling the capacity.
2. getting a new rackmount but with a single LTO 2LC tape drive which
would give me 400GB Native
3. Putting a LTO2OC tape drive into one of our workstations and using that
to undertake the back up (is that viable from a networking point of view?)

Other suggestions much appreciated - we need to back up about 50GB at the
moment rising to 100GB in say 18 months

Thanks

Alex




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