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There are several VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries) that will emulate IBM
tape drives. You can set up one VTL for your Network and iSeries,
emulating multiple drives for each. Your backups then go very fast to
disk to tape. Some allow you to encrypt to tape as well using only one
drive. Since all you are doing is moving the virtual tape to physical
tape, you can run the "to tape" part attended during the day. They you
can send the tapes off site. If you have to restore, you can restore
from the VTL and not recall the tapes. I have been looking at them but
not used one so I am only saying they exist and support both Network and
iSeries.
Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Kevin.Brake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 2:14 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: back up options
We're looking into ways to consolidate/automate our backup strategies.
Right now we have two separate operations, one for the windows
servers/SAN to a tape library device and a second operation for our
i5/520 (V5R4) where we backup libraries to a separate LTO3 single tape
device.
The vendors we've talked to do not have interfaces that could "pull"
from the i5. So we're wondering if anyone has pushed backups from IBM
onto a windows SAN for capture to tape and if it would be possible to
restore from such a device?
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