Re: External disk for iSeries

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That's what we've switched to and we like the speed a lot.

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Look into the new fiber-attached Ultrium 2 tape drives.  If you're on an 
8XX box or later, the transfer rate is probably faster than moving it to 
another server.  Each tape cartridge holds 200GB of data uncompressed, 
400 GB with compression.

Jeff Crosby wrote:
>>c)             Fast disk to disk backups (well, faster and cheaper than 
tape
>>libraries perhaps)
> 
> 
> This is what I would like to do:
> 
> 1) Restrict the system
> 2) Back up the entire system (complete image) to another set of disk 
drives
> 3) Bring the system back from a restricted state
> 4) Transfer from this 2nd set of disk drives to tape
> 
> Can this be done?  Wouldn't this be a lot smaller restricted window than 
any
> tape backup?  Would this be a lot more expensive than having 2 tape 
drives
> to duplicate tapes for offsite storage?  Is anyone already doing this?
> 


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