RE: Backing up the iSeries to a VTL appliance

Great news. I plan on using my existing LTO-2 to move virtual to
physical.




Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 8:10 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Backing up the iSeries to a VTL appliance

We had to set something up with Cybernetics for quick ship of an HTSC to
a recovery site.

Really no other option as the physical tape library was a Dell SDLT.

You could check with Cybernetics to see about using for example a
directed attached LTO tape drive. Though I think it would work.

Charles


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Chris Bipes
<chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Did you have any concerns with disaster recovery? Basically could you

boot off a full system save mounted on the VTL? Could you load tapes
in the physical drive and recover using a pass through feature?



Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:25 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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
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