Stt20000a

[Phippy]

I have an aging Seagate STT20000A tape drive (used for backup) that finally bought the farm.

I'm using this on Win2000 Server, what would you recommend for a replacement? The natives are getting restless with no backups being performed.

[snowmonkey]

Originally Posted by Phippy

I have an aging Seagate STT20000A tape drive (used for backup) that finally bought the farm.

I'm using this on Win2000 Server, what would you recommend for a replacement? The natives are getting restless with no backups being performed.

When is comes to backup hard ware and software, you are talking big money. obviously you don't want a tape drive that will run out of capacity for you in a year or two and on the other hand $$$ is big consideration.

Questions are: What is in your budget ? what is the maximum size of the backup you "NEED" ?

Cheers

[Phippy]

Something like a Quantum Travan CT 20 with the IDE interface would likely do for several years to come as far as capacity is concerned (10/20 gigabytes). I do need it to be IDE.

I mentioned the Quantum because it's the first one I saw, but I have no experience with it or any other.

Right now we're using 4/8 gig tapes and not backing up over 2 gig of data. We have Backup Exec software (and I hate it) so there's no expense involved there.

[snowmonkey]

Originally Posted by Phippy

Something like a Quantum Travan CT 20 with the IDE interface would likely do for several years to come as far as capacity is concerned (10/20 gigabytes). I do need it to be IDE.

I mentioned the Quantum because it's the first one I saw, but I have no experience with it or any other.

Right now we're using 4/8 gig tapes and not backing up over 2 gig of data. We have Backup Exec software (and I hate it) so there's no expense involved there.

IDE interface would be very slow for recovery........personally I haven't used IDE tape drive yet.....We use internal Tandberg SLR 50/100 with SCSI 3 Interface.....over 160 Meg per/ Minute of backup, and it works with Backup Exec.

My suggestion SLR7 for you:
http://www.tandberg.com/index.php?op...d=53&paction=8

I know of few IT guys who use Tandberg backup drives (internal and Externals) and so far all of them been happy.

The new update for Veritas Backup Exec (which is called Symantec Backup Exec 10.d), is very slick as long as you have all the agents for different kind of server.

Cheers