Re: VTL for IBM i

[PaultinNZ <paultormey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tsetso,

Are you using the EMC DD VTL with BRMS or without?

Have you had any experience setting it up and with operational procedures?


On 13 November 2015 at 08:47, Tsvetan Marinov <tsetso.marinov@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Hi,
> I have experince with EMC DD VTL solution for IBM i and I think iy quite
> good, you can take a look at it.
> It has deduplication and all the nice things.
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> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:56 AM -0800, "Bruce Collins" <
> bcollins@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Guys, I need your opinion on what would be a good VTL solution for a Small
> college. I need to do backups but I would also like to store the copies off
> site. We have 1.2TB of total storage and using currently 811GB. Normally I
> do a weekly full backup and then incrementally during the week using BRMS.
> I think that I would like a solution that would:
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> 1)      Backup to a VTL
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> 2)      The VTL would Replicate to another VTL that would be located
> off-site approximately 3 miles away.
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> 3)      I would like to keep the monthly backups for 12 months and then
> recycle them.
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> 4)      I would like to keep yearly backups until I decide to recycle them.
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> Money is an object, so I need a good solid low-cost solution.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Bruce "Hoss" Collins
> Wallace Community College
> Director, MIS
> 1141 Wallace Drive
> Dothan, AL 36303
> Phone 334-556-2447
> 1-800-543-2426, Ext. 2447
> bcollins@xxxxxxxxxxx
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