Re: Full Save/Long Term Storage/Having Readily Available Hardware

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

and lastly, how long will it take to xmit that 650GB of savsys21 to your 
recovery site?

J

On 9/30/2021 5:51 AM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote:
> My main question is why limit yourself to that DD Device?
>
> With the cost of a couple LTO tapes it would seem that DUPTAP to a 
> physical LTO has many advantages.
>
> a) Cost. The tapes are cheap and you can make 2 (they are small!) or 3 
> or 5...
>
> b) Space. They are small and you can store one in several places and 
> easily move them.
>
> c) Energy. Sitting on a shelf an LTO tape uses about as little energy as 
> possible, maybe even zero. It can sit there a long time at zero. The DD 
> Device is going to be sucking KW and pouring out heat the whole time.
>
> d) KNOWLEDGE. If you 'make the call' "I need to recover a system from 
> LTO4 to hardware POWER7 or older. HELP!" you will get many to help. If 
> you call out "I Need to restore from DD to a POWER7 or older." You will 
> find vastly less help.
>
> e) KNOWLEDGE (2).  Who's going to remember the name of that tape in the 
> DD Long Term?
>
> I don't like it myself.
>      - L
>
> On 9/30/2021 6:00 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> > I have a situation where I need to store a full system save in long term
> > storage using BRMS as the save solution and an EMC DD as the hardware of
> > choice.  The LIC is aged and I know it would only boot on power7 and a
> > couple of power8 models.  With knowing this and all the requirements
> > associated to something like this, has anyone else ever done anything 
> > like
> > this and if so what solution did you go with.  Assume the data needs 
> > to be
> > readily available for like 1-7 years where you could unwrap a system and
> > boot from it.  Maybe including the full save, save the libraries that you
> > want for that durational period of time and restore them to a different
> > system running on power9 or 10.