DAT72 tape drive
Hi all, I'd like you to give your advice regarding DAT72 tape drive on M5000 server.
Our customer backups a lot of data (fs, database) using DAT72 tape drive. In space of 10 months it has been replaced 3 times because , i think, it hardly works . Backup goes on 18h per day : data have to be spread over 6 cartridges and backup on each cartridge takes 3 hours.
Note that drive cleaning is performed regularly.
That customer have also LTO but this solution is too expensive for him because of LTO cartridge cost (total 6 cartridges/day and each cartridge is never reused).
Thanks and regards
Our customer backups a lot of data (fs, database) using DAT72 tape drive. In space of 10 months it has been replaced 3 times because , i think, it hardly works . Backup goes on 18h per day : data have to be spread over 6 cartridges and backup on each cartridge takes 3 hours.
Note that drive cleaning is performed regularly.
That customer have also LTO but this solution is too expensive for him because of LTO cartridge cost (total 6 cartridges/day and each cartridge is never reused).
Thanks and regards
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