Brust, Jim wrote:
> We have a HP e3000 939 KS running MPE-iX 6.5 pp 3.  We use Orbit's
> backup software writing to an external DLT8000 tape drive via SCSI.
> This machine is connected to our LAN via a 10 mb Ethernet card.  We
> would like to move to some sort of better backup system.  Most of the
> other systems here use Veritas and an ADIC(sp) tape system, but after
> several months working with Veritas its appears that this is not a
> solution we can use on our HP3000.  What other options are available?
> I have looked at LTO, but it appears this would require going to MPE-iX
> 7.0 and that is not an option.

The 10mbits/sec is going to be a bottleneck.  That's ~4.5GBytes/hour ideally.  How much are you backing up?
Remote backup may not be an attractive option.

If you have enough disk, you could store-to-disk compress=high and ftp it somewhere that is backed up by other means (we do this for offsite storage) but you may need a 100Mb link to make this feasible.

I'm sure Denys could give you a better idea on what you could do locally :-)

Jeff

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