ianh@merlin.bhpmrl.oz (Ian Hoyle) (10/15/88)
Any ideas on 8mm video tape backup systems suitable for Apollo's ??? I don't
really want to contemplate backing up a DN10000 with 2.8 gigabytes of storage
using a tape cartridge :-)
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Internet: ianh%merlin.bhpmrl.oz@uunet.uu.netjim@eda.com (Jim Budler) (10/17/88)
In article <231@merlin.bhpmrl.oz> ianh@merlin.bhpmrl.oz (Ian Hoyle) writes: >Any ideas on 8mm video tape backup systems suitable for Apollo's ??? I don't >really want to contemplate backing up a DN10000 with 2.8 gigabytes of storage >using a tape cartridge :-) > Ian Hoyle Me, too. But I'm a little more current. I have a ring containing more than 3 Gbytes data.(our data not system space) It's a real pain to back up to cartridge. I can spend $30k to buy a DSP90 and a 6250 1/2" tape drive. I could move the user data around the net in such a way to allow 50 Meg segments of the ring to be backed up to cartridge in a rotating schedule with no cartridge swaps required, but it would break periodically as project data in segments grew. It would also require rearranging all our disks, not a trivial task. The 6250 tape drive would be better, but *very* expensive. An 8mm video tape backup should cost about $6k including an interface to a DN3000/DN4000 AT bus controller. -- uucp: {decwrl,uunet}!eda!jim Jim Budler internet: jim@eda.com EDA Systems, Inc.
bhv@igloo.UUCP (Bronis Vidugiris) (10/18/88)
Try "Workstation Solutions" for an 8mm video backup unit. -- ddsw1!bhv@igloo
krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (10/18/88)
Actually, the Exabyte tape drive offered by Danford lists for something like $8900, and the similar package from Workstation solutions goes for close to $6900. Both vendors were showing off their packages at the ADUS conference. If you really want to get fancy, Workstation Solutions also had an Exabyte drive mounted in a 50 tape carosel (50 * 2.2GB/tape !!). -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter@athena.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)