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  1. 123Jimmy

    SDLT 160/320 performance opinions

    You can use 3ware for Raid 5 and Raid 1 Ejection for backups, but you can use it for regular JBODS. This system allows you to use your existing backup software as long as it backs up to disk and use older disks that you have on the shelf. It has its niche. With the Idealstor appliance you...
  2. 123Jimmy

    SDLT 160/320 performance opinions

    Been there and done that. It is not as easy as you think to buy a system with hot swap drives and use it for Backup. You will run into a lot of problems. BE is installed on the appliance itself and it comes with software to manage the drives ejection.
  3. 123Jimmy

    SDLT 160/320 performance opinions

    GWichman, I work for a software company which sells defragmentation software. And I am using the Idealstor appliance. Sorry for the confusion I just think it is great and not well marketed. As for the speeds. 600-700MB per minute are the speeds that I have seen and higher in a lab with...
  4. 123Jimmy

    SDLT 160/320 performance opinions

    You might want to try backup up to an appliance such as an Idealstor unit. http://www.idealstor.com. This backup appliance give you the capability with 10/100 nics to backup 700mb to 1.2gb per minute. That would shrink your backup window. The disks in the appliance are also removalbe while...
  5. 123Jimmy

    Tape unit requiring too much cleaning

    I would just backup to disk like an Idealstor unit that doesn't require any cleaning. http://www.idealstor.com
  6. 123Jimmy

    Small business back-up solutions

    For that small of a network I would be using snapshot. Try restoring AD servers without it. It can be a headache. You can use a small Idealstor backup appliance with snapshot software to do full nightly snapshots of your servers. You can even mount the images and share them mounted images as...
  7. 123Jimmy

    Snapshot of server backup ??

    There is a backup appliance called Idealstor (http://www.idealstor.com) that comes with Acronis snapshot software. It works great. You can snapshot your servers during the day even without using a lot of CPU utilization. In addition, with the backup appliance you can restore faster because...
  8. 123Jimmy

    backing up

    QMann, I agree tapes and disks are about the same cost. Backing up to disk is the way to go for speed, cost, scalability etc. There is a new backup appliance that I just got for my company called Idealstor. You can find it at http://www.idealstor.com. It is a backup appliance that allows...

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