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Article #146Re: RAID SYSTEMS AND ON-LINE BACKUP
From: Donna Beckman
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:59
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:59
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Beckman@Fwva.Saic.Com (Donna Beckman) writes: >We are looking into introducing RAID systems into VAX-based clusters >for hospital information systems. We have done a lot of reading and >research and talking to vendors, but none of the RAID systems we know >about have the ability to back up the disks to tape while keeping the >array on-line. Does anyone have experience doing this? How are RAID >sites handling requirements for backups? We have a hospital information >system and so are working with a 24 hour/7 day uptime requirement. The >only scheme we can come up with is to shadow all or part of the RAID array. >
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!kithrup!hoptoad!pacbell.com!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!unogate!mvb.saic.com!beckman From: Beckman@Fwva.Saic.Com (Donna Beckman) Newsgroups: comp.arch.storage Subject: Re: RAID SYSTEMS AND ON-LINE BACKUP Message-ID: <8661894@MVB.SAIC.COM> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:59:36 GMT References: <8661784@MVB.SAIC.COM> Organization: Science Applications Int'l, Corp. - Computer systems operation Lines: 10