Re: [foxboro] Alternative to tapes for backing up P79 and P81 machines.

I have not used any of these products personally but they are available for
many professional IT storage and application solutions on Solaris. They are
provided through SUN so I would think they will work with an I/A system. The
only thing I would be wary of is if they are compatible with the Informix
partition. I believe demos are available from the vendors sales portal.
NetVault is a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) solution which would speed up
your backups/restores. I think most of the StorageTek apps are also. And
they run while the system is up.

Data Protection Software 
Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software 
BakBone NetVault: Backup Software 
Veritas NetBackup by Symantec 
IPStor Software by FalconStor 
Sun StorageTek Availability Suite 
Sun StorageTek Compliance Archiving  

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From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kevin Fitzgerrell
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 4:12 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Alternative to tapes for backing up P79 and P81
machines.

We're running BackupPC now to back up our AWs and some WPs - A, B, C,
D and E boxes - across the 2nd ethernet ports on our MIS network.  It
is very efficient as it uses a pooling mechanism, and also checks for
matching files before copying them.  Loading on the stations being
backed up is low - no loading problems even on our A boxes.

Although it has been running for some time, we haven't done any
rigorous work to ensure that we can restore effectively from the
BackupPC server.

Kevin FitzGerrell

On Nov 16, 2007 8:44 PM, Ken Heywood <kheywood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A caveat before I mention this: I have never used this tool. So there,
> here's the skinny:
>
> The Linux world has long used an open source (GPL license) program
> called BackupPC. It runs on Linux and UNIX boxes. Its main purpose is to
> backup networked computers to a hard drive (which then can be backed up
> to some other media like DVD, tape, etc.) It can backup Linux, UNIX, Win
> and MAC boxes. I explored this possibility as an alternative to tape for
> my network servers, but settled on a commercial appliance (which is also
> Linux based). BackupPC may take some Unix expertise to setup. I just
> didn't have the luxury of time to explore it. For you UNIX gurus, you
> might want to give it a try (over your le1 ports ofcourse, not the IA
> port). The link to BackupPC is http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
>
> Happy computing.
>
> Best Regards,=20
 
 
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