A 3584 with 4 frames, looking to add 1 or 2 more frames at present...
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 12:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] using different media for permanent offsite copies What kind of library do you have? (What you are suggesting usually works just fine.) On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Cheung, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi all > > Need to know if this is feasible as an idea.. > > We are about to move to a LTO4 media library instead of LTO3s - by > replacing the remaining LTO3 drives we have with LTO4s... by marking > the existing LTO3 tapes all 'read only' and putting in LTO4 media for > write operatons etc, eventually our library should then only be > comprised of LTO4 media, with LTO3 media expired and can be removed from > the library. > > We are going to have an enormous amount of LTO3 media after this which > we wont use for the normal backup cycle. We however do have a business > requirement to have regular (quarterly) full copies of the backups for > permanent offsite archival due to legal requirements. Yes, aware this > means we would need to have hardware available to read such data for the > next 5 years etc.... > > Would it be feasible as an idea to define a second logical library - > call it 'archive' perhaps within my existing physical library, define a > new media pool referencing this logical library which will only be > designated with LTO3, put the LTO3 media in there, and generate offsite > copies to this media? It would either be an export data operation or > generate backup set to this meda pool.. > > Does that sound feasible? > > Richard > > <html> > <body> > <font face="arial" color=#808080 size="-2"><img > alt="Santos Logo" src="http://www.santos.com/library/logo.gif";> > <br>Santos Ltd A.B.N. 80 007 550 923<br> > Disclaimer: The information contained in this email is intended only for > the use of the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may be confidential or > contain privileged information. > If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any > perusal, use, distribution, copying or disclosure is strictly prohibited. > If you have received this email in error please immediately advise us by > return email and delete the email without making a copy.</font> > <font face="arial" color=#008000 size="-2">Please consider the environment > before printing this email</font> > </body> > </html> >
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