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Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 08:14:11 EDT
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From: trw@hrc63.co.uk (Trevor Wright Marconi Baddow)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: current  <<modern>> backup ideas for VAXclusters
Keywords: backup, streaming tape, WORM
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Date: 27 Apr 87 12:14:11 GMT
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If you ask DEC for their suggested backup technology for VAXclusters
where you might have multiple RA81's or SA482's they reply TU78's and
similar which cost a small fortune.

Can anyone suggest more modern equipments to solve the thorny backup
problem WHICH ARE RELIABLE AND PROVEN...

How about some of the Megatape products I see (650Mb a cartridge??) or
WORM optical discs...what are big cluster sites doing now.

Thanks

Trevor Wright
GEC Research
Chelmsford UK

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