Re: NFS and remote image catalogs/saves ?

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rob, yes, that is what I would like to know.  If it adds an hour to the
save would that be worth it to maybe forgo what you do today with it being
local and then FTP'd.  Then what does it on the restore side as well.


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:14 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We save to local virtual tape image catalogs.  Then we ftp them to another
> system.  Then we dupe them to tape.  And actually BRMS keeps track of
> which physical tape has a save of which particular object on the source
> system.
> We've not tried NFS.  Actually I'm pretty new at NFS.  I am using it now
> on a few lpars and it gets the job done.
>
> The question becomes, does it slow down the actual save?  If so, is it
> significant enough to justify more local disk to speed up the process?  We
> bring up the services denied during the actual save, after the save is
> done but before we start ftping the data over.  So our outage window does
> not include the transfer time.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:   04/05/2013 08:49 AM
> Subject:        NFS and remote image catalogs/saves ?
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> Has anyone did much with this, is it to slow.  I am looking to use this
> for
> daily saves.  I know that 6.1.1 is a requirement on both sides.
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