Re: dutap full save 21 to image catalog

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yea, I was thinking about save files at that point.......  My bad.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 8/9/2013 8:23 AM, DrFranken wrote:
> Compaction and compression won't help! (Assuming LTO tape at least) And
> here's why:
>
> LTO tape drives do not support compression so that's out.
>
> Compaction happens inside the drive between when the data hits the port
> on the drive and when it hits the tape media. Clearly then it must
> UNcompact the data on the way off the media and back into the system
> during the DUPTAP.
>
> DUPTAP supports compaction but that would happen on the drive the data
> is being written to. Since you want to write to a virtual tape
> compaction isn't an option there. DUPTAP doesn't support compression so
> that's off the table (again).
>
> So plan on some fairly sizable files.:-)
>
>
>           - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
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> On 8/9/2013 8:59 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
>
> > >  One other quick thought.  To cut down on the size of that image file,
> > >  make sure to set compaction and compression when you do the save.
> > >
> > >  Jim Oberholtzer
> > >  Chief Technical Architect
> > >  Agile Technology Architects
> > >
> > >
> > >  On 8/9/2013 7:50 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> > > >>  No on BRMS, yes, time consuming, thanks on the binary info.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>  On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Jim Oberholtzer<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > >>>>     wrote:
> > > > > >>>>     If all you need to do is move the image to another place and then
> > > > > >>>>     potentially do a restore or DUPTAP to another physical tape, no, there
> > > > > >>>>     should not be any problems.  If your using BRMS it's gonna get a bit
> > > > > >>>>     confused but Oh well.
> > > > > >>>>
> > > > > >>>>     That's gonna potentially be on big FTP?  Make dang sure to us binary
> > > > > >>>>     mode on that dude......
> > > > > >>>>
> > > > > >>>>     Jim Oberholtzer
> > > > > >>>>     Chief Technical Architect
> > > > > >>>>     Agile Technology Architects
> > > > > >>>>
> > > > > >>>>
> > > > > >>>>     On 8/9/2013 6:19 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> > > > > > >>>>>     >   I have adequate disk, anyone seen any gotchas in doing this.  I need to
> > > > > > >>>>>     >   then FTP the IFS image catalog to another server.
> > > > > > >>>>>     >   --
> > > > > >>>>     --
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