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Re: Tape drive for Proliant servers and SANS

 
AL-Akaria
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Tape drive for Proliant servers and SANS

hi,

im planning to buy a tape drive to backup 8 HP Proliant DL380 G6 servers and 1 HP Storage MSA2000.

what is the most suitable Tape Drive from HP that fits my servers and storage?

my SANs storage is already running on RAID6.

what is the best solution to backup SANS storage?

hope you experts could help me with this.

thank you

peter

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Sudhakar Subramaniam
Trusted Contributor

Re: Tape drive for Proliant servers and SANS

hi,
you can browse through the details of libraries from the below link depending on the capacity that you want.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/12169-304612-304622-304622-304622.html
AL-Akaria
Occasional Contributor

Re: Tape drive for Proliant servers and SANS

thank you for the reply

ill just browse the link you gave me.

is there any solution that you can advice me for backing up the SANS storage?

is the LTO-5 tape drive is the most relaiable one to be used in my servers?

thank you so much

Sudhakar Subramaniam
Trusted Contributor

Re: Tape drive for Proliant servers and SANS

LTO-5 is reliable .
I would suggest you have a word with the sales person and let him know your expectations so that they can give you the right solution.
AL-Akaria
Occasional Contributor

Re: Tape drive for Proliant servers and SANS

thank you for the suggestion maybe ill talk to the sales man for best solution for all my servers.

for your own opinion what will you buy for external storage if you have 8 servers HP Proliant DL380 G6 and 1 HP storageworks MS2000fc using RAID6? and your servers are running 24/7 everyweek. and data is changing everyday.

what Backup configuration that is most likely? like backing it up everynight or everyweek? if i backup my servers everyday will the tape inserted on the tape drive storage will last for how many days?

thank you so much.