Re: Using a VTL (as in remote VTL)

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

More of a cloud based solution like falconstor gateway.  Has anyone heard
of amazon's glacier??  Has anyone ever went the route of using web hosting
service providers to house backup data??

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Thank you for the information, cost savings basically.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:19 PM, <brad.lovelady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Jack,
> >
> > Why would you want to backup local system data to a remote VTL if there
> > was a local VTL available? Perhaps I am missing some context? Why not save
> > to a local VTL and replicate the tape pool files to a remote VTL? I do this
> > with our VTLs and it works like a charm. Additionally, the replicated data
> > has already been "deduplicated" and compressed. This means it's quite
> > likely a tape that's natively 500GB worth of data might only replicate
> > deltas that are a fraction of that 100GB.
> >
> > The closest thing I have seen to long distance backup is TSM or ADSM. We
> > have used the TSM API to backup limited types of data straight from a
> > partition in one data center to a TSM server in another, via BRMS of
> > course. It's slow, but does work long distance because of the TCP/IP
> > transport. (Obviously you could capture a save file locally and transfer
> > that to a remote device too)
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> > midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Kingsley
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:39 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Using a VTL (as in remote VTL)
> >
> > I have some local VTL's defined that I am using, cybernetics and EMC as
> > an example.  Now let(s) say I need to do a backup to a VTL device that is
> > not local, is anyone doing anything like this??  If so can you explain a)
> > how and B) how it compares to your local vtl save.
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