RE: More DASD

Sorry I need to clarify. We only backup the most recent quarter of
images nightly. We back up all data nightly to an Ultrium 3 multi tape
drive. We have over 6 million documents on IFS and it will not happen in
one night.  So we backup each quarter to tape and put tape in vault then
daily it is just recent quarter of images. 

We can do NFS as well and we are investigating this. But we have no clue
what to get.  For backup we have an old 3581 Ultrium 2 we hope to use on
this. But this is all new to us and we do not know if it is right path.




date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:55:15 +0200
from: "Lukas Beeler" <l.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: More DASD

You only do backups quarterly?

Consider buying a multi-drive ultrium 3 library, and do nightly saves.

Storage in the System is one of the most expensive things. If money is
an issue, you won't be able to get a clean and integrated solution for
your system i. Accessing storage via QNTC seems like a hack to me.

QNTC uses normal Windows SMB shares, almost all el-cheapo NAS boxes
support this. But you would then need a separate backup solution for
your NAS boxes, which isn't a nice approach.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karl Lauritzen Jr.
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 11:05 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: More DASD

I searched archive and can only find 2-3 year old references that some
seem to not apply anymore.  We need disk for images. We use about 7-10GB
per week of images. Iseries expansion units very expensive and overkill
for this only. My image system will support image son optical or
external dasd as long as it can be seen by QNTC. I can now see shares on
some of my XP and MS exchange via QNTC. My BP is quoting me Netapp or
IBM DS400.   
 
Here is my problem we are clueless on how to hook this up, does it work
and backup of TB of data. Right now we back up quarterly to tape and
archive tapes. Got stacks of them already. 
 
I see the low end shark drives are dead but where do I start? And does
any network appliance work via QNTC? 
 
Karl Lauritzen Jr.
National Lloyds

Waco Texas 

254-717-6960