Re: Backup to DISK using BRMS

Le 19/07/2016 à 14:39, Rob Berendt a écrit :

I am curious as to why some people who are using VTL's duplicate
everything to physical tape.
Is it because they only have one VTL and it's local so, therefore, they
want to get something offsite?

In our case, this is due to a customer requirement. They want every backup on two distinct media in two distinct sites. The distance between our two sites is around 10 km which is enough for the customer.
For this requirement, we cannot use the VTL replication function, as it replicates media with the same name. They are indeed on distinct physical support (the two disk storage systems), but they have the same media label, whic is confusing for the customer and their auditors.

We're finding out that the labor of physically handling media, dealing
with Iron Mountain, training backup personnel to cover physically handling
media, etc is a big PITA.

Still in our case, we do not send physical media offsite. They remain in the physical tape library storage slots. So, there is no labor, BRMS does all the duplication work.

Marc
(I am happy, I can see my mails back in the list, without changing anything..., thanks anyway to Chuck for his suggestion)