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Just to muddy the waters a bit more, ESS/DS6000/DS8000 SAN's from IBM are pricy - no surprise there - and actually are more expensive than getting another tower and filling it with disk, as I recall. This makes a SAN like those (there are cheaper ones but I don't know how they connect) not cost-effective if all you have it for is to expand on iSeries storage. The SAN is good for multiple-platform access to storage. Just a thought! Vern -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Karl Lauritzen Jr." <klauritzen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
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