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What kind of budget do you have?
What kind of growth in data and # of servers do you expect beyond 1 year?
That powervault looks good for the next year or so. Check out pricing on ATL's libraries too. Quantum makes all DLT drives anyhow regardless of who you buy from, and often Quantum's stuff is cheaper.
I do like the ATL M1500's since they're so expandable. e.g. you can order one with 1 drive or 2.. they support a variety of drives too so you should be able to upgrade from DLTIV technology to SDLT down the road. You can even buy additional units and stack them on top for more slots/drives. Of course they cost more then the powervault you're looking at but also have more slots and options.
but check out some of the cheaper ATL offerings and see if you can't save yourself some money with those. As it stands by the end of the year you'll be rotating tapes out of that powervault on a daily bases to make room for more data (that night's backups). Is that acceptable?
What kind of growth in data and # of servers do you expect beyond 1 year?
That powervault looks good for the next year or so. Check out pricing on ATL's libraries too. Quantum makes all DLT drives anyhow regardless of who you buy from, and often Quantum's stuff is cheaper.
I do like the ATL M1500's since they're so expandable. e.g. you can order one with 1 drive or 2.. they support a variety of drives too so you should be able to upgrade from DLTIV technology to SDLT down the road. You can even buy additional units and stack them on top for more slots/drives. Of course they cost more then the powervault you're looking at but also have more slots and options.
but check out some of the cheaper ATL offerings and see if you can't save yourself some money with those. As it stands by the end of the year you'll be rotating tapes out of that powervault on a daily bases to make room for more data (that night's backups). Is that acceptable?
The company I work for, ThinkingSafe Ltd, provides online backup and recovery services for business data so please feel free to ignore the rest of this note.
Think of the purchase in terms of total cost of ownership, not just the hardware. So h'ware, s'ware, tapes (wkly,mthly,yrly versions), creating 2 copies a night (one stays local one offsite for D/R), management time and costs, plus courier costs to transport and store the tapes offsite.
Also to ensure you future proof your backups you need to take a strategic view that will commit you to DLT - S/DLT - whatever comes next or LTO - son of LTO, to ensure you have tape hardware and software around in 3,5 or 7 years that is compatible with archive data to fulfill your legal obligations.
I hope this was of use
Ed
Think of the purchase in terms of total cost of ownership, not just the hardware. So h'ware, s'ware, tapes (wkly,mthly,yrly versions), creating 2 copies a night (one stays local one offsite for D/R), management time and costs, plus courier costs to transport and store the tapes offsite.
Also to ensure you future proof your backups you need to take a strategic view that will commit you to DLT - S/DLT - whatever comes next or LTO - son of LTO, to ensure you have tape hardware and software around in 3,5 or 7 years that is compatible with archive data to fulfill your legal obligations.
I hope this was of use
Ed
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