As I'm (finally) skimming the July/August OraMag, featuring The List's very own April Wells, I spy an Oracle ad touting 1.18M tpmC on Oracle and RHAS3 Linux. When I looked at the hardware ( http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/HP/HP%20Integrity%20rx5670%20Cluster%2064P_ES.pdf), I thought it was funny that for 93+TB of disk on the server cluster, they have a single 20/40GB DAT drive. Doing some quick assumptions (all RAID10, HDs 50% full, tape compression 50%) and math, that's about 23TB of data to be backed up onto 690 DAT tapes. At about 3MB/second transfer rates and tape swapping, that's about 3 months to do one backup. And I have no idea what you do if you need a restore at day 70 of the backup... All this can be yours for the low low price of $6.5M! And upon further inspection of the Full Discloser, all SAN sets are RAID0 and the data took up 70TB, so let's push that backup figure back to 6 months. At least they were able to keep the cluster up more than 15 minutes at a time, unlike Microsoft... Ah well, it's nice that Oracle's on top again, I suppose. :) Rich ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------