Re: Virtual Tape Stacking Software

2007-05-15 Thread Don Bolton
Lizette, VDR (Virtual Data Recovery) is much more then a just a tape stacker. Automating the stacking of VTL data to hi-density tape using a different dataset name prevents any impact on production tape processes. The recovery side of VDR allows you to recover/unstack the stacked datasets to

Re: Virtual Tape Stacking Software

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Fake
Hello Lizette, Take a look at CA VTAPE: http://www.ca.com/files/DataSheets/brighstor_ca_vtape_r11-5_ds.pdf Success story that discusses tape stacking: http://ca.com/files/SuccessStories/29989_county_el_paso_bvs.pdf It integrates nicely with CA1 as well. Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc.

Re: Virtual Tape Stacking Software

2007-05-14 Thread John E Benik
It sounds like you are an IBM virtual tape shop. As far as I know VDR is the only product that will copy onto a tape and stack it for offsite shipment. IBM recommends using this rather then the Export and Import utility. We use STK and a package with the STK software called DR utilities.

Re: Virtual Tape Stacking Software

2007-05-14 Thread Bruce Black
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Re: Virtual Tape Stacking Software

2007-05-14 Thread Russell Witt
Lizette, With CA-1 as your tape management system, of course the recommended tape stacking software is CA-1/CopyCat. This will work very well in terms of taking hundreds of virtual-volumes and stacking them on a physical cartridge for DR purposes. Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager