dixon@pdn.paradyne.com (Tom Dixon) (01/24/91)
I have a question for the Novell admins out there.... Does anyone make a 8mm tape backup system for novell that supports the soon to be available Exabyte 8500 which stores 5g on each tape? Is anyone working on it? We currently are using the Emerald Systems EmSave system. Has anyone else noticed that they are selling Exabyte 2.5 g drives that list for about $2500 for $5000? When we asked them about it, they got pretty defensive. They also claim that if you don't use their tapes, they won't be responsible for the results. They sell the same TDK's I buy for <$10 for closer to $50. I have always felt they are being a bit greedy. The real problem we have is that it takes about 18 hours to backup 4gigabytes. They have told us that this is normal. Our Suns back up to a generic Exabyte at about 1g/hour, so I am a bit surprised that it takes Novell 4.5hours/gig. Especially since we only paid half as much for the drive on the Suns. ;-) Does anyone have a solution to 8mm tape backup on Novell that they really like? I would love to hear about it. -- Thomas M. Dixon Jr. dixon@pdn.paradyne.com Software Engineer uunet!pdn!dixon AT&T Paradyne, Largo, Fl "You never learn anything from winning all the time..."
karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee) (01/26/91)
In article <1991Jan24.130509.29145@pdn.paradyne.com> dixon@pdn.paradyne.com (Tom Dixon) writes: >I have a question for the Novell admins out there.... > >Does anyone make a 8mm tape backup system for novell that supports the >soon to be available Exabyte 8500 which stores 5g on each tape? Is >anyone working on it? > I just ordered a 2.2g Exabyte drive from Exabyte. I ordered the software from Palindrome. The complete system from Palindrome (drive and software) was about $2000 more than buying the drive direct from Exabyte, and Palindrome advertises that they use the Exabyte drive. Anyway, I'll let you know how it works. Anything has to be better than swapping 8 tapes into the Mountain Tape screaming tape drive to get a complete backup of the data files. :-) >Does anyone have a solution to 8mm tape backup on Novell that they >really like? I would love to hear about it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Karin Coffee Intel Supercomputer Systems Division Network/System Administration 15201 NW Greenbrier Parkway The LAN Lords Beaverton, OR 97201 karinc@isc.intel.com (503) 629-7693 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
brian@cimage.com (Brian Kelley) (01/29/91)
In article <1114@intelisc.isc.intel.com> karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee) writes: >In article <1991Jan24.130509.29145@pdn.paradyne.com> dixon@pdn.paradyne.com (Tom Dixon) writes: >>I have a question for the Novell admins out there.... >> >>Does anyone make a 8mm tape backup system for novell that supports the >>soon to be available Exabyte 8500 which stores 5g on each tape? Is >>anyone working on it? >> >>Does anyone have a solution to 8mm tape backup on Novell that they >>really like? I would love to hear about it. Just don't buy a system from Emerald. We are finally getting rid of ours :-) We've decided to go with TNA from Palindrome also. I feel the TNA software is rather overpriced and it definitely has it's problems, but I feel it is better than anything else I've seen and I like the idea that they separate the drive from the software (after all, it's just an Exabyte!) For TNA problems: try backing up a read only filesystem or a WORM; the TNA software *must* create a \TNA directory on the volume to hold your indices :-( Palindrome doesn't have a fix. Maybe in some future release, they say... >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Karin Coffee Intel Supercomputer Systems Division > Network/System Administration 15201 NW Greenbrier Parkway > The LAN Lords Beaverton, OR 97201 > karinc@isc.intel.com (503) 629-7693 >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- --- brian@cimage.com