Re: Desperation, DR, and four TS3100 libraries...

2009-07-10 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Wanda, I read all the replies already, and the Gresham idea looks the most promising. You will be telling your customer that their DR vendor is retarded, right? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Thursday, July

Re: TSM vs Avamar

2009-06-29 Thread W. Curtis Preston
john D. Schneider said: The beauty of VCB is that it doesn't require a client install on each machine; there is less administration per VM, which means less time. Hmmm. Not sure I'd use beauty and VCB in the same sentence. ;) I usually say that VCB stands for Very Complicated Backup. ;) I'm

Re: Data Domain - questions from a meeting with DD

2009-06-24 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Loon, EJ van - SPLXM said: The Dutch guys also confirmed that compressed data is dedupable, but it depends how compression is done. I agree with the last part, but it also depends on the file. If what you're talking about is multiple versions of the SAME compressed file over time, DD (and other

Re: PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

2009-06-15 Thread W. Curtis Preston
I apologize for the ambiguity in the message that started this whole thing, and I agree that it is ironic that it was missing context. I also apologize for such a personal and negative message, but please allow me explain. The reason I responded so negatively to you was that I read and re-read

Re: PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

2009-06-14 Thread W. Curtis Preston
I apologize for my late response to this thread. I've been on the road constantly for two weeks and didn't see Richard's message. Richard Sims said: Sorry, Preston, but your presumption to impose this requirement on ADSM-L members is bogus. sigh You obviously didn't read the post to which you

Re: How to read TSM content without TSM??

2009-05-26 Thread W. Curtis Preston
The real answer is it depends, and the cited blog page gives you some possible ways to make it happen. No, I didn't cite any success stories, but I'm sure Index Engines will be glad to give you some. The way you say that, it's like the tools I mentioned are all fantasy or something. As to me

Re: BackupPC running on BSD- Problems when writing to tape

2009-05-19 Thread W. Curtis Preston
I'll take the heat for this one. I didn't notice that TOP had posted to the wrong list. Sorry about that. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of km Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 3:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L]

Re: Migration Tools TSM=Somewhat?

2009-05-11 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Are you saying you're going to stop using TSM and start using some other backup software, but that you have a bunch of tapes that you still want to restore from? This is generally impossible with any backup software. (There are some exceptions like Backup Exec - NetBackup, but they're from the

Re: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-03-21 Thread W. Curtis Preston
. Curtis Preston Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G) Why do you hate all things dedupe? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10

Re: VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G)

2009-03-20 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Why do you hate all things dedupe? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VTL and Dedup ( TS7569G) Funny, but I was researching the TS7650

Re: TSM and VTS

2000-11-17 Thread W. Curtis Preston
, .. ) and TSM with or not VTS Thanks in advance for any reply! Kindest regards, _ Dominique Costantini Unicible tel: +41 (0)21/644 6151 fax: +41 (0)21/644 6300 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- W. Curtis Preston, Principal Consultant at Collective Technologies Email: [EMAIL

Opinions about ADSM/TSM?

2000-11-15 Thread W. Curtis Preston
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Re: Partition a 3494

2000-11-15 Thread W. Curtis Preston
library. Exactly how is a 3494 partitioned? What needs to be done on the 3494 side? I know I need to use different set of category numbers for the 2nd server on the TSM side. Thanks, T.Y. --- W. Curtis Preston, Principal Consultant at Collective Technologies Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED