Re: Virtual tape - size and saving

Not exactly. We currently have 2 3580's. We're looking into online backup
and going down to a single tape drive. Being anal-retentive, even with
online backup, I may decide that one day a week I want to do a local full
backup. I could do that local backup to the tape drive, then dup it to
virtual, then dup it back to another tape on the same tape drive and have
an offsite copy.

My guess is the initial backup to the physical tape drive would be faster
than to virtual.


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Jeff,

Are you thinking of using them for virtual tape backups ?

I'm still trying to determine the value over saving and FTPing save files.

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message: 2
date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:04:48 -0400
from: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Virtual tape - size and saving

All,

Doing some refreshing on virtual tape. I did some testing a couple of
years ago and decided at that time not to use it. Now I might.

What's the maximum size for a virtual volume? This page
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1019030 suggests it's
1TB. Is that right? (Assuming you have that much available space to begin
with.) Does it just expand automatically as you're saving to it?

Also, I've used image catalogs for what seems like forever and love them.
All of mine are under '/ImageCatalogs'. I've always told BRMS to omit
'/ImageCatalogs' in saves. If I read it correctly on that same link above,
it says I can achieve the same results by doing "CHGATR
OBJ('/ImageCatalogs') ATR(*ALWSAV) VALUE(*NO)" I can't believe I haven't
noticed that before. Do the rest of you have it set to *ALWSAV *NO? Will
I need to do it on every folder within /ImageCatalogs or will doing it on
the parent folder suffice?

Thanks.

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Jeff Crosby
VP Information Systems
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.


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