Re: Using Disk in place of tapes for copy pools

2002-04-12 Thread Coviello, Paul
I 've read this, with much interest since we are looking at NAS right now in a remote building, for DR purposes for one. Would you know if this would be possible to do, in having the data goto both tape and a NAS appliance offsite. thanks Paul -Original

Re: Using Disk in place of tapes for copy pools

2002-04-11 Thread John Underdown
Pat, We been using a all disk backuppool for a number of years now. It's grown to 3TB (4 expansion cabinets with 14 73GB drives each and each set to raid 5), we just keep adding disk expansion to server as we need more storage. We use a small LTO library for the copypool. We backup 360

Re: Using Disk in place of tapes for copy pools

2002-04-11 Thread Kovacs, Mark
John, How many versions do you keep and how does reclamation happen, if it does ? We are interested in setting up something like this and would like to know more of the pros and cons. We've seen prior conversations about issues on reclamation. Any and all information would be

Re: Using Disk in place of tapes for copy pools

2002-04-11 Thread Steve Harris
Can we have some details of your disk vendor and model? How has reliability been? Any disk failures? I have an IBM ESS here, but that is too expensive to waste on very large disk pools. Thanks Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/04/2002

Using Disk in place of tapes for copy pools

2002-04-10 Thread Patrick J. Kelleher
We currently back up 500 GIG a night using an ATL 6000 tape library. Before replacing Tape Library we would like to research the possibility of using Disk in place of tape for all backups. Anyone doing this, especially on a large scale as we have 20 terabytes in Tape Library.