Re: Virtual Tape and IFS/Image Catalog Full Save (21)

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think it is around 60GIG, takes about 2 hours.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I was talking about IBM Virtual Tape emulation for the iSeries.  I
> prefer a VTL appliance with a very fast link such as 10GB Ethernet or
> faster Optical.  But if the appliance does not have enough arms, it can
> be your bottle neck.
>
> But if you are saving to the same ASP, which you are not, your disks
> will be over worked and be your bottle neck.
>
> I like your idea of offloading to an FTP server.  How much data are you
> saving on a daily basis?
>
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
>
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>
> What(s) your definition of a VTL, a UDFS in the IFS, I have one of these
> as
> ASP2 and it is pretty fast, offload it daily to an FTP server.
>
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