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Next steps:
1) Research a small fire safe on the web, with enough capacity to hold 7 pieces of LTO media - the safe will need to be able to hold 7 pieces of LxWxH of 120mm x 130mm x 30mm. The cartridges are actually about 10% smaller than this, but they come in plastic cases to keep dust out.
2) Is the server/AC room dusty?
3) Does the server already have an HBA (Host Bus Adaptor) card installed?
4) If so, make and model?
5) If not, I need to know exactly how many, and exactly which type of PCI slots are available?
(PCI, PCI-X, PCIe - how wide? 32 bits, 64bits? Power rating of slots - some PCIe slots are 25W some are 75W? And whether the slot can take a "full length", or half-length and/or full height and/or half height PCI(-X)(e) card?
6) Once we know the PCI slot details (type, speed, power, physical length, physical height, and logical pin bus width) we can then determine a suitable HBA card - be it SCSI, SAS or FC.
7) Once we know wheter you have lots of already compressed data, we can decide between LTO3 and LTO4 data capcity requirements.
8) Once we know what our HBA model options are, we can determine a free standing LTO3 or LTO4 drive with the required interface - be it SCSI, SAS or FC.
9) Then we check the support matrices for:
- The server model
- The HBA model
- The tape drive model
- BackupExec
10) Once we determine which options are all supported together - then consider price vs brand reputation.
11) You'll also need to purchase 8 pieces of suitable scratch media (not WORM media for LTO4), and also one cleaning tape. All the media need to be of a brand that is supported/recommended by the tape drive vendor. Do NOT buy cheap unbranded media - this isn't a CD for your car - it's your business data!
12) Determine response time for your software support for BackupExec:
- 4 hr and you should be able to achieve a 1 day RTO.
- 8 hr and you should be able to achieve a 2 day RTO.
- next day, and you should be able to achieve a 3 day RTO.
HTH,
Dave.
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