NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/hp/13069

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From: [e-mail] (Tha^`y Cu*ng)
Subject: HP-UX Backup Question
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:33:51 GMT
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Hello,

I have this question, hopefully someone will respond to this.  We have about
20 HP9000/8xx boxes in house, I am currently using HP Omniback backup product
to back them up across the network.  Due to the amount of data,  I am no longer
be able to back them all up in a given time window, therefore, I am planning to
do standalone backup (since we have 1.3GB DAT drive for every single system).

I used to purchased 4 licences for Omniback Admin. node, and the rest as Omniback client nodes.  I was recently informed by my sell rep. that I have to
pay full price (~ $5000) for any nodes running Omniback, either it's an admin. node or client node.  This will cost me ~ $80,000 if I use HP Omniback for standalone backup. :-(.  The reason we used Omniback because it allowed us to perform network backup, and the main reason was SPEED; it allowed us to backup multiple file systems simultaneously to a single backup peripheral.

Now the question is IS FBACKUP, TAR, CPIO, ETC. AN OPTION IN MY CASE, IF IT IS, WHAT BACKUP SPEED WILL I GET OUT OF EACH OF THEM?.  Thank you very much in advance, since I am using a friend account in order to post this, please respond either to the newsgroup or [e-mail].




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