OT: Tape less Backup System

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
To: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Tape less Backup System


> Doug Luurs propounded (on Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:43:32AM -0500):
> | We current do all our backups to tape, and it seems to be getting more
> | and more
> | Costly every time I need more tape space. (And tapes being prone to
> | failure more
> | Often then not)
> |
> | Does anyone have a UNITRENDS D2D Backup System running.
> |
> | ( http://www.unitrends.com/appliancetechnologies.php?id=8 )
> |
> | My company is looking at their DPU 5000 model, and am looking for
> | Any comments / Warnings about them.
> |
> | (REF: Will be backing up Windows Machines & Openserver 5.0.7/fp
> | databases)
> |

God luck. It should be a great idea and there are obvious advantages, but we 
had one site try it a couple years ago and it was a disaster. Unitrends is a 
good company, we use their solid old ctar on every box. Maybe 2 or 3 years 
of further development has made the dpu thing better. Myself, I'd probably 
use backupedge for network backups if I was going to try that again and my 
main reason for that would still apply even if the dpu worked perfect.

It comes down to one really simple bit of math or logic:
With the dpu, the overall scheme is a special server and a special client.
With backupedge, there is no special server.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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