RE: Backing up the iSeries to a VTL appliance

["Chris Bipes" <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great news.  I plan on using my existing LTO-2 to move virtual to
physical. 


 

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 8:10 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Backing up the iSeries to a VTL appliance

We had to set something up with Cybernetics for quick ship of an HTSC to
a recovery site.

Really no other option as the physical tape library was a Dell SDLT.

You could check with Cybernetics to see about using for example a
directed attached LTO tape drive.  Though I think it would work.

Charles


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Chris Bipes
<chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Did you have any concerns with disaster recovery?  Basically could you

> boot off a full system save mounted on the VTL?  Could you load tapes 
> in the physical drive and recover using a pass through feature?
>
>
>
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:25 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Backing up the iSeries to a VTL appliance
>
> Chris,
>
> I used a Cybernetics VTL at prior job.  It was connected to the 
> iSeries via SCSI and to the network via iSCSI.  So both our iSeries 
> and our PC servers were backing up to it.
>
> Seemed to work well for the most part, I did wish the appliance 
> software, used to move data from the virtual tape to physical, was a 
> bit more advanced.  Mainly I was trying to use it in a way it really 
> wasn't designed for...don't remember the details.  But that was a 
> couple of years ago and the device was pretty new.  So it probably has

> advanced some by now.
>
> Also at the time, one other downside was teh Cybernetics device stored

> data uncompressed on the virtual tapes.  There was a competing product

> that store compressed but the $$$ was considerably higher.
>
> HTH,
> Charles Wilt
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