<div dir="ltr">I have (and love) my Exabyte VXA StorageLoader <a href="http://www.tandbergdata.com/us/en/products/search-result/?action=2&ref=170">http://www.tandbergdata.com/us/en/products/search-result/?action=2&ref=170</a> and run bacula to manage the process. It can backup over the net using an encrypted channel or the client can encrypt the data itself. My rig has been running nearly flawlessly and unattended for 4+ years. It emails me every night with the results of the backup run. I don't have to swap tapes as it's all robotic. Occasionally I have to tell the process to "yes. mount the tape and recycle it" but that is an issue with 2 of the 5 tapes I use (and reuse). I backup about 450GB fully every week and incrementals daily. I have done recoveries from this system and it works flawlessly. I can do a bare metal recovery of the back up manager machine and database using a single CD and one tape. I also have a single, external tape drive of the same type that can be used manually if the robotics fails (which would really suck!).<br>
<br>Love it! wonderful tools. Can't recommend them enough. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Preston Boyington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Pat Regan wrote:<br>
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> Who is going to swap the tapes during the backup? Won't that make it<br>
> very uneconomical?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>no. buy a unit that uses multiple tapes. i think you are looking at a<br>
single tape unit which is not what you would want.<br>
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