Re: Using Virtual Tapes with EMC Data Domain

Thanks Coy.

Are you saying:

1. EMC don't support copying the VT to any other storage device

Some further questions:

1. Do you have a diagram that you could share showing how this is being
done?
2. Is your SAVSYS being written to a Virtual Tape on the Data Domain?
3. Do you then replicate between the 2 VT Libraries using the Data
Domain System Manager?

Regards
Paul



On 3 March 2015 at 14:39, Krill, Coy <CKrill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have two of them, one on each Power 7. We replicate in both directions,
meaning my production system backups on our primary data domain get backed
up to our DR site and when I do a full system save on the DR machine it's
backed up to my primary data domain. We also have tape drives. I create all
my virtual tapes at a size that will fit on my physical tapes so that I can
easily go back and forth which I find we do increasingly less.

I've been told that there is no direct support for copying off the
data/contents of a virtual tape to another storage device. That said, since
you can DUPTAP from virtual tape devices, you could dupe from one virtual
tape device to another. Spin up a virtual tape device that writes to the
IFS and dupe to that and then copy the IFS structure off somewhere else and
then reverse the process to bring it back to the data domain.

Coy Krill
Core Processing Administrator/Analyst
Washington Trust Bank


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I'm looking for anyone who is using EMC Data Domain for backing up their
IBM i system (and obviously data) and who would like to share their
experiences in this regard.

Is their anyway of saving/copying a VT from the Data Domain to the
attached Networker system for cloning onto tape? And obviously how do we
get this saved tape based data back into the DD VTL for subsequent restore
to the IBM i ?

Regards

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