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From: dave@jplopto.uucp (Dave Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Large scale backups
Keywords: backup video tape optical
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Date: 17 Aug 88 23:57:00 GMT
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Reply-To: dave@jplopto.UUCP (Dave Hayes)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA
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MEGATAPE corporation (in Duarte, CA) sells a backup subsystem that
runs off of a Ciprico card. The thing costs about $9000, and the media 
cost is...get this...$10 a cartridge and you can buy the media at a 
Music Plus or Wherehouse. The media is the "super 8" form of video 
cartridge, and each cartridge contains 2.3 gigabytes of storage. 

I run a 15 (12 Nodes and 3 DSP90 servers) node network here at JPL, 
have been using their older system ($12,500 for the system and 
630MB per $125 cartridge) and have had no problems using it except
for the fact that RBAK/WBAK times out looking for a logical backup
file that is too far into the media. But our backups aren't accessed
that often, and I always run through the thing sequentially anyway. 

Their phone number is (818)357-9921. Any more inquries, please E-mail
me at one of the address below.

------===<<<Dave Hayes>>>===------
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