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From: ricec@thor.stolaf.edu (Craig D. Rice, St. Olaf College)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Looking for info on disk and backup subsystem
Keywords: disk, video tape backup
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Date: 9 Apr 89 20:24:40 GMT
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St. Olaf is looking into purchasing another disk and a new
high-capacity backup system and was wondering if any of you net-folks
had any recommendations or warnings.

We would like to purchase a 600+M disk for our two VAX 11/780s - fast,
and dual-port-able. (We would share filesystems via NFS but would also
like the option of being able to press a button and have the disk on
the other VAX.)

We are also interested in a 2.3Gb (or more, if it's affordable) tape
backup subsystem.

We already have a collection of product literature from various vendors,
but are looking for some personal experiences with different disk and
high-capacity tape hardware.

Thanks in advance for your recommendations! Please e-mail responses directly;
if interested, I will post a summary to the net.

Craig

Craig D. Rice		Academic Computing Center UNIX Systems Specialist
ricec@stolaf.edu	St. Olaf College
+1 507 663-3631		Northfield, MN  55057   USA