kwadhwani (MIS) Apr 10, 2001
Please help, I need to purchase a DAT drive for my company, to enable it to have backups of critical data. The software supplier for a particular piece of software supports the software via backups (in case they need to rebuild the databases etc.) They use a DDS3 HP 24i Surestore DAT drive and do not know when they will go over to DDS4.
I would like to use a DDS4 Dell Powervault 100T , since it can store more.
Will I still be able to save data onto a DDS3 tape from my DDS4 hardware, and send it to my supplier, who will then read it on their DDS3 machine? (and hence use DDS3 tapes until my supplier gets upto speed!)
The alternative is to purchase a DDS3 machine, although I feel the life span on this hardware and the tapes will be limited with DDS4/5 around?
Can someone advise please.....??
Please help, I need to purchase a DAT drive for my company, to enable it to have backups of critical data. The software supplier for a particular piece of software supports the software via backups (in case they need to rebuild the databases etc.) They use a DDS3 HP 24i Surestore DAT drive and do not know when they will go over to DDS4.
I would like to use a DDS4 Dell Powervault 100T , since it can store more.
Will I still be able to save data onto a DDS3 tape from my DDS4 hardware, and send it to my supplier, who will then read it on their DDS3 machine? (and hence use DDS3 tapes until my supplier gets upto speed!)
The alternative is to purchase a DDS3 machine, although I feel the life span on this hardware and the tapes will be limited with DDS4/5 around?
Can someone advise please.....??
