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suggestions on a tape drive? for server

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ArkAoss

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at my office we have an hp 24x6 drive which accpets cartridges of 6 tapes, usually we use 5 tapes and one cleaning, we do 2 backups of 2 server sets a day, im wondering if any of you other IT peep's out there know of any better options, we just got the drive replaced, and the new one has been giving errors on every backup since we got it, and we got it friday, if you guys can think of any other non HP systems that use dss 3 tapes and the 6 cartridge loader, please post it here, or of another way to backup around 144 gb a day???

WIndogg and others. . . please give a new IT guy a hand
 
hmm sunner sounds like i'm gonna take a look at the compaq, thanks, i hope it takes the dds 3 tapes, we could switch over to the 8 by 24
 
it takes the dds 3, but it unfortunatly carries the compaq label,
the reason, im even asking is cause HP has been very poor with their service on this
 
In terms of service, something carrying the Compaq label isnt a minus in my eyes.

I live in Sweden, and maybe Compaq's service differs here from where you live, but to me, Compaq's service has allways been excellent.

Compaq's server stuff is by far the best in the x86 world IMO.
 
i live in us, and personally have never had a bad time with compaq's support, they always seem more than willing to help, because they know their products are designed to work only with their stuff,
 
True, their products are designed primairly to work with their other products, but pretty much all the big ones use standard stuff these days, so it shouldnt be a problem.

Used a Sun tapesystem with a Proliant here, worked fine, and right now, Im using a Deskpro with a Tekram SCSI card and a Sun Unipack connected, containing a SCA 10K RPM HD, a tad faster than the disk that came with the Deskpro 🙂

And yet another example, we're using a Sun StorEdge D1000 with 12x9 GB disks connected to a Proliant 1600 right now, running Linux, and its working like a charm, 100+ GB's of mp3 goodness 😀

Anyway, like I said, its all standard stuff these days, so you shouldnt have a problem.
 
Compaq's server related product line is much better than their PC product, if that's the basis of your statement.

In any event, are you using new tapes in this new tape drive? If not, try it. I have seen a batch of tapes that were used primarily in one tape drive for an extended period of time that would seldom work if you tried to use them in another tape drive. I thought it was odd, but maybe the tapes mold themselves somehow to a particular tape drive?
 
naw its not that, hp any way's i cant convince my boss to give compaq a try, we invested in a service plan garunteeing a next day replacement, and instead tehy took three days and sent us back one we had returned 3 months ago
 
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