Hey Dan C.,
I was going to start looking into that exact same setup. What version of
netbackup and netapp vtl were you using? I'm currently using direct tape copy
but the issue we have now is that too many tapes are going offsite. So i was
going to utilize SLPs and use the VTL as the data
VTL Direct Tape Creation and NetBackup
I spoke to a colleage of mine who is familiar with the Netapp VTL device
and he told me that the limitation spoken of on the Netapp VTL is
incorrect. The only 1 to 1 corelation between the Netapp VTL and the
physical tape library are the physical tapes
I spoke to a colleage of mine who is familiar with the Netapp VTL device and he
told me that the limitation spoken of on the Netapp VTL is incorrect. The only
1 to 1 corelation between the Netapp VTL and the physical tape library are the
physical tapes not the drives.
Have you discussed
...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Conner,
Neil
Sent: 26 October 2009 22:47
To: Ed Wilts; hkyeak...@gmail.com
Cc: Veritas List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetApp VTL Direct Tape Creation and NetBackup
This is a great analysis... However, one thing a VTL is good for is
handling slow clients. For me, backing
I am deploying a NetApp VTL 1400 (VTL OS Version 6.0) at my local site.
I am working with the NetApp engineer assigned to our deployment to
layout which policies are written to which virtual library, etc. The
topic of Direct Tape Creation came up and I'm getting some information
that is
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Heathe Kyle Yeakley hkyeak...@gmail.comwrote:
Here's my current layout:
Hardware: Spectra Logic T380 with 12 IBM LTO4 tape drives.
* I'm told the theoretical bandwidth of an LTO4 tape
drive is approximately 120 MB/s. If I have 12 drives,
This is a great analysis... However, one thing a VTL is good for is handling
slow clients. For me, backing up about a hundred clients to 12 virtual tape
drives significantly shortened my backup window compared to backing up to 4
LTO3 drives (I have quite a few slow clients to contend with so
