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  3. October 2018

Re: How far away can a 3573 Tape library with LTO7 HH FC drives be connected to ENOA PCIe3 16Gb Fiber Channel Adapter

Why not just use two replicating VTL's instead of physical tapes?
We have zero (none) physical tape drives.
"Tapes" are duplicated to the other machine and can be restored.
And we no longer have to check in/out tapes in transit, deal with Iron
Mountain, etc. This was a SIGNIFICANT amount of a days labor for one
operator. Perhaps she did a bit much "busywork" but still it was
distractive when I had to cover her when she was on vacation.

There is a small group of people who think one might still need physical
tapes in a VTL environment. These are the people who are concerned that
someone might infect your VTL's with ransomware.




Rob Berendt

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