Re: Disaster Recovery with Oracle

Tom wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> As for you questions, on cost:
>
> BackupButler is extremely cost effective when you consider the total
> cost of ownership of other backup and recovery products. (Wouldn't
> you rather spend your time on more mission critical projects instead
> of backup and recovery scripting/scheduling/monitoring?) In terms of
> pure product cost, here too BackupButler is a cheaper solution then
> other less capable products. BackupButler is built on the newest
> technologies (eg. ATA drives) and as such is much more cost effective
> while still reliable. Here is a quote from ComputerWorld: "That's
> led to the recent trend of positioning tape as an archival solution
> only and using disk drives as both backup storage and as a tape buffer
> for backup storage."
> ComputerWorld Nov/02
>
> As for security:
> BackupButler was designed for government level security and is in use
> by certain high level government agencies. All backup pieces are
> encrypted, BackupButler has built-in intrusion detection and physical
> disk locks. It is the most secure backup solution available.
>
> As for the clusterable architecture:
> Yes it does promote offsite storage of backups because the technology
> is cost effective enough to allow this. We have customers who have
> one BackupButler on one campus, with a mirrored BackupButler on
> another campus for disaster recovery needs. Now you can have your
> complete backup and recovery *infrastucture* offsite, not just a tape.
>
> I'd be pleased to answer any other questions you have.
>
> Brian Peasland <oracle_dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message news:<3EDF5DEA.76B67450_at_remove_spam.peasland.com>...
> > Another marketing speach!!!
> >
> > > · Eliminates costly standby database licensing
> >
> > Is this system costly? Or can you give it to me cheaply?
> >
> > > · Improved security of backups
> >
> > How? What makes your system more secure than my tape backups where the
> > tapes are locked in a computer room?
> >
> > > · Clusterable Architecture up to 1000TB
> >
> > Does this promote offsite storage of backups? If this is disk based, how
> > expensive is the solution going to be just to back up one 50TB database?
> >
> > Just some thoughts....
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > ===================================================================
> >
> > Brian Peasland
> > oracle_dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com
> >
> > Remove the "remove_spam." from the email address to email me.
> >
> >
> > "I can give it to you cheap, quick, and good. Now pick two out of
> > the three"

I second Sybrand's response. Your posting was pure spam and marketing hyperbole totally unappreciated and out of place in this usenet group. Show us some respect by posting at c.d.o.marketplace if you wish to solicit business.

And please please please don't treat us like morons if you want our business. Garbage such as "is extremely cost effective when you consider the total cost of ownership of other backup and recovery products" is solicitious and condescending. Post a price.

Oh and Brian ... your tapes in the computer room aren't worth five cents if the sprinker system* comes on or the building burns down. Get the off-site into secure storage.

• and the fact that the sprinker system isn't in the computer room does not necessarily invalidate this statement. Ask me how I know. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)