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What tape drive should we use L2000

Gino Castoldi_2 — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:15:47 GMT

Hi,

We have a L2000 server HP-UX 11.0. We want to get a external tape drive so we can use and create Ignite-UX tapes.

Can we use a DLT 7000/8000 tape drive for this purpose?
We have one SCSI card built-in and available. It says Ultra-2 on the SCSI terminator and it's attached to the CORE I/O Lan/SCSI interfaces.

10 points to any good answer.
Thank you
Gino

Re: What tape drive should we use L2000

Pete Randall — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:21:01 GMT

Gino,

For Ignite tapes a DLT7000/8000 might be a bit of overkill. Since, hopefully, you're only igniting vg00, it should fit nicely on a DAT tape, which will be cheaper and easier to connect, since the DLT will probably require a A5159A (or equivalent) FWD SCSI card.

I'd go for a smart storage enclosure and a DDS drive.

Pete

Re: What tape drive should we use L2000

John Poff — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:22:17 GMT

Hi Gino,

We use DDS tape drives on all our L-class boxes. They work great for Ignite tapes and we haven't gotten burned with one yet. We plug our DDS tape drives into the Ultra-2 SCSI port and they work great.

JP

Re: What tape drive should we use L2000

Helen French — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:24:53 GMT

I wouldn't suggest you to use DLT drives for making Ignite tapes. You can make use of a DDS3 external drive. This can be connected to the SCSI port which you mentioned. This way you will reduce the cost too.

Re: What tape drive should we use L2000

Jeff Schussele — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:42:15 GMT

Hi Gino,

I'd also echo the others' sentiments - use a DDS tape drive for local tape storage
If you need more capacity than a DDS3, then look at the HP C5683A. It's a DDS4 drive with a 20GB native & up to 40GB compressed. All our higher-end (RP7410 & up) systems are now coming with this drive & we like it.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: What tape drive should we use L2000

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:09:48 GMT

True overkill.

We're using Ultrium 230 external tape drives. When we bought them last year they cost $5000 a piece.

We use them for Ignite bootable recovery tapes and eventually for large Veritas backups.'

They hold 200 Gigabytes and are compatible with our Surestore tape libraries. The primary reason we choose this was to standardize our tape format across the Enterprise.

For what its worth.

SEP

Re: What tape drive should we use L2000

Tim Sanko — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:42:00 GMT

I hope you choose a dds3. It is not able to back up a large system, but it fits the bill for Ignite.

I have a Tape library with 20 LTO drives, and I would never dream of using them for ignite. The Ignite drive really needs to be non-san based.

Re: What tape drive should we use L2000

Tim Sanko — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:42:07 GMT

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