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What are the opinions vs. facts, for where one places a tape drive (DAT) on the network.
One school of thought seems to value placing the drive in the server. Another, on a network "Administrator" workstation.
The network is a 10/100 CAT5 so bandwidth is NOT an issue and the data rate is typically about 35Mb/s.
gil
In the server
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O.K. But what if the network has two servers? And the file server isn't the Primary Domain Controller? Won't network traffic remain nearly as high as the domain controller is queried for each file/permission?
Let me rephrase:
In the computer that holds the files!
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An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Agreed Eagle https://forums.windrivers.com/
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Generally the best location for your tape backup to run is on the server where the majority of company data resides. You can in fact use the server with the most unused resources and schedule the job to run when network traffic is at it's lowest.
We have 15 servers and one tape backup array attached to the BDC and run the backup at 11:00pm and 3:00 am - in a 24 hour accessed environment. In our case the system uses too many resources to focus on file and application serving to use valuable system resources to host the backup that we use our BDC as the backup server - we only use the BDC as the backup server anyhow (both NT Domain services backup and to run ARCServe).
Definatly on the server with the most data, we have 3 nt severs running citrix, and 1 novel 5.0 file server, our tape is on the novel server. We have a no access policy from 2:30 am to 4:30 am, with NWAdmin we are able to lock everyone's profile so they can't access during those times. thats how we do it and it works pretty well
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