Re: Cheapest Backup Solution?

"Susan Doucette" <sdoucette@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> You're not going to find anything cheap that meets all these criteria. All
> vendors require extra licensing for autochanger support. As for SAN, I
> assume you mean dynamically sharing the tape library among your SAN-attached
> hosts, right? That's definately extra cost. Basically you're dreaming if
> you think this is will come in under $50 per server. I recommend Legato
> NetWorker if you can overcome the budget issue.

I thought the OP wanted under $50 per client, not per server.

Is the autochanger that big a deal? I thought those tape robots just
used fairly simple, standardized commands.
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