Keeping in mind that Virtual Tape, and a Virtual Tape Library, are nothing alike.
Virtual Tape is done with WRKIMGCLG and a VTL is an appliance you buy.
A few comments.
1-NFS is not supported on Virtual Tape. It is supported on Virtual Optical. I can find that statement somewhere but it's true. Virtual Optical has it's own limitations but if it's NFS you want you can decide if you can live with those limitations.
2-There is nothing stopping you from taking the image catalog entries and FTPing them to another system.
3-VTL: Before we had a system at our co-location facility they supplied a device we replicated our EMC DD2500 to in order to get offsite replication of our backups. Now we have our own VTL at the co-lo.
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Subject: Advice needed: Virtual off-site backup solution
Folks:
I'm in need of some advice ... I'm looking for a way of implementing a backup system that would allow us to do regular backups (not savsys) to a virtual tape and store the data at a remote location.
This is mainly to do daily & weekly backups on our development systems.
We have a Power 7+ (8202/E4D) with 1.3tb of storage (12 x 198C drives) and 290gb free. We have a management partition and 4 guest partitions.
What I'd *LIKE* to be able to do is SAV* & RST* to a virtual tape device, store the data on a local system, then transfer the backup to an off-site server via our WAN.
Is what I'm describing possible at all?
Is this something that could be done with added storage on our management partition and some virtual tape & image catalog magic?
Would we need to purchase some extra hardware to implement this?
Thanks!
david
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