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There are a number of factors that will impede your backup speed and overall performance. This day in age the drives are so fast that most of the time you will be able to almost exclude them from the equation fairly early in the performance game, unless they really stand out and being the sole...

The "database agent" integrates with RMAN to allow you to do an online backup of the database - it basically serves as a link between your backup software and Oracle. It basically 'allows' RMAN to use the devices configured in your backup software for the backup job. You will still need a...

Is the drive working fine with other media and is the media having the same problem in other drives? - Just to isolate to the specific media. The pin itself is fairly sturdy and could only be caused by either the drive or handling, unless it suffered from a production problem. Initially have a...

If the leader pin is damaged then replace the media! The pin is attached to the physical media and although it probably could be 'repaired' the price of a new piece of media is so low, that a repair is just not worth the time or effort. The only reason to investigate this option should be to...

If you are putting a budget together to 'solve' - or at least make your backups more tolerable, I would probably start by making a list of everything that I needed the solution to do and work from there. The key questions would be: - How long are you planning to retain the data? - is there an...

Think the key word here is datacentre, and nothing scares a customer more that hearing that the future of his company is sitting firmly with a backup application he or any of his staff ever heard of. If you are offering this to your customers as a business, make sure that you select a product...

Best would be to verify controller support on the drive documentation - since SCSI controllers need to comply with the standards, there isn't really that much diffence between them, however when you contact a reseller to purchase a suitable controller all they will offer is 'current controllers'...

I have had good experience with Ghost for cloning harddrives in the past. It will however be a complete clone of your existing disk (including the HAL), so will cause some problems if you want to move the image to a different (architectural) computer. In theory you should be able to use...

Well! Dell doesn't make tape drives themselves, so getting a PV110T will most likely contain either an IBM or Quantum drive wrapped in some sort of Dell plastic, with a Dell defined inquiry string. If you get into trouble - either with configuration or operation, Dell will most likely not be...

Most drives will have compression enabled by default and is the easiest way to achieve compression. The normal assumption regarding compression is usually, that for normal operating environments hardware compression is the way to go. Software compression should only be selected if your backups...

Hiya, The 800GB is the compressed capacity (assuming 2:1 compression)- the raw capacity of the media is 400GB and are as such the basis of the available space on the media. It is safe to pass the 400GB marker on the media, however this will only be possible if compression is enabled. Good...