Backup to Virtual Tape -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Backup to Virtual Tape
From: Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:09:59 -0400
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We backup just about everything to tape each night, including the IFS. I would like to try backing up to a virtual tape, in the hope that it will be significantly faster, and copy to a real tape during the day.

Does anyone have any "gotchas" or techniques to share?

Things that have come to mind are:

1) Disk space: We have more than enough.
2) We will need to exclude the virtual tape from the backup.
3) We are also running Mimix to a backup machine, so we need to exclude the virtual tape from replication.

Thanks, Sam

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Follow-Ups:

RE: Backup to Virtual Tape , Chris Bipes
Re: Backup to Virtual Tape , DrFranken
RE: Backup to Virtual Tape , Paul Fenstermacher
Re: Backup to Virtual Tape , rob

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