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shc@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (S.H. Couturie) writes:

>We here have workstations and servers from  DEC, Sun, SGI, 
>HP and IBM.  Our network backups, running for more than 2 years now, are
>taken on an Epoch Systems server; this has the [huge!] advantage of 
>built in volume management [the backup program doesn't do it, the 
>system volume manager does], database support, and support for file
>migration from magnetic to optical disks.

Couldn't resist a commercial plug.

The Epoch-1 storage management server mentioned above is
essentially an NFS server with transparently integrated
optical juke boxes and some very smart software to backup,
track and generally manage the large volumes of on-line data
(20 to 1000GB+) which may be involved.  The magnetic disks
are used as a cache for data stored on optical media.

Epoch have just announced:

1.  The Epoch-2: successor to the Epoch-1 storage management
    server.  It's based on a SPARC-2 CPU and SunOS.
    
2.  EpochBackup network backup software:  it uses a true client
    server model and features unattended, "lights out",
    "reliable" backup of UNIX systems over the network.
    The feature list is very impressive.

Comperex distribute the Epoch products in Australia. 
Contact me if you want more information.

Phil Chadwick
Manager, Comperex Networks
phil@cxbne.cx.oz.au