Re: High speed backup devices
Date: 1996/02/10
Message-ID: <4fgur9$heg_at_firebrick.mindspring.com>#1/1
pp001868_at_interramp.com (Bob Obenour CDS) wrote:
>Our Oracle database is currently 128 Gig in size and growing. Our company does
>Third Party Billing and Recovery for State and commercial Medical Insurance. At present we
>are doing hot backups. The daily backup procedure places tablespaces in backup mode and
>then copies the data files to a scratch disk where they are later backed up to tape. This holding
>area is 10 gig in size. It takes operations a whole 8 hour shift to back these files to 8mm DAT.
>At present it takes 12 day cycle to backup all the datafiles.
>We have tried using our magneto-optical juke, but it still is slow in writting and takes a whole day to
>re-format for the next time thru.
>Any suggestions besides praying?
>The device must be able use media that can be removed for off site storage.
>Thanks in advance.
>Bob Obenour
>Computer Delivery Systems
>Pittsburgh PA
Try 3490 tape drives. much faster than 8mm. 8mm is probably the slowest tape media you can use.
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Received on Sat Feb 10 1996 - 00:00:00 CET