Re: Backing up the iSeries to a VTL appliance

Chris,

I used a Cybernetics VTL at prior job. It was connected to the iSeries via
SCSI and to the network via iSCSI. So both our iSeries and our PC servers
were backing up to it.

Seemed to work well for the most part, I did wish the appliance software,
used to move data from the virtual tape to physical, was a bit more
advanced. Mainly I was trying to use it in a way it really wasn't designed
for...don't remember the details. But that was a couple of years ago and
the device was pretty new. So it probably has advanced some by now.

Also at the time, one other downside was teh Cybernetics device stored data
uncompressed on the virtual tapes. There was a competing product that store
compressed but the $$$ was considerably higher.

HTH,
Charles Wilt



On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Is anyone out there using any Virtual Tape Library appliance to backup
their iSeries? I do not want to use the Virtual Tapes on the iSeries
but an external appliance.

If so, how do you like it, how is it connected, and what is it?


Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.
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