[comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt] backup devices for RT

cslater@ibmpa.UUCP (Charlie Slater) (07/28/89)

I need to dump gigabytes of disk to some form of backup storage
such as a cartridge tape or WORM.  Am interested getting at least
one gigabyte per operator intervention.  Does anyone have
any suggestions on how to do this with an RT?

charlie slater
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brunner@bullhead.uucp (08/02/89)

In article <1586@ibmpa.UUCP> cslater@ibmpa.UUCP (Charlie Slater) writes:
(a 1gb+ dump query)
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>charlie slater
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Charlie,

You'd think that someone has an Exabyte, uses it to dump a disk farm
with AIX as well as IBM/4.3 servers, and perhaps even uses an RT to
drive it, in lieu of a (machine)... If no one else has tried we can
call up Exabyte and its competitors.

I bought one to dump the dozen or so Sun 3/180 and 3/280 file servers
at my facility at SRI. The 2gb covered a lot of incrementals - though
I daisy chained the incrementals and did disk-to-disk dumps and just
had the weeklies moved to cassette. 

Eric Brunner, IBM AWD Palo Alto
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