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In <1992Oct22.005328.111@rivers> acs_brath@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu writes:

>I am looking for a solution to backing up a 8 Gig array of disks.
>They are situated in 4 seperate computers (3 Gigs/3 Gigs/1Gig/1 Gig).
>I am using SCO unix ODT 2.0.  All the machines are connected with TCP/IP
>and are NFS mounted on each other.  I was using a 5Gig 8mm drive, but now my
>storage has superceded my backup drives capacity.  I am looking for a 
>hardware/(maybe proprietary software drivers) recomendation on how to back 
>this up in some sort of automatic fassion. IE: So I don't have to insert 
>backup tape #2.  I have survived with the 8mm but if I want to restore 
>something at the end of the tape it takes almost an hour for the drive 
>to get to it, this is to slow.  I would like some sort of Read/Writeable
>Compact disk changer (Jukebox, or Carousel) to do this.  My major needs are
>speed in restoring a particular file, and storage capacity.  Price is not 
>much of a factor.  If it makes a difference the machine layouts are as follows:

Archive/Maynard do a 4mm dat drive with an autochanger that takes up to 
5 cartriges.  So that would be 2GB X 5 = 10GB - without compression.  If
you used the DAT drive with built in compression, you could theoretically
get up to 8GB X 5 = 40GB , but in real-world applications I should think
you'd get 4GB X 5 = 20GB.

I think you can also allocate one of the cartriges as a head-cleaner which
automatically cleans the heads when they need cleaning.  I'm not sure if
this is automatic in the drive or needs to be addressed externally by 
software.

Have a look.

Aris

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