Re: Advice needed: Virtual off-site backup solution

Absolutely!

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We at iInThecloud have ETI SPHiNX VTL which you can replicate to. We can source for you and install a SPHiNX VTL at your site and connect to your Power System. Your backups will be done to that device as it appears just as an IBM Tape Library. As soon as the backup is completed the tape will be replicated to our site. The replication is deduplicated so data that you backed up yesterday that has not changed is already here and need not be sent again.

We then have that copy and it can be used to recover you at our site or copied to a physical tape and sent back to you in case of need for a disaster rebuild.

Contact me if you have questions!!!

</vendor response>

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 3/13/2019 12:37 PM, David Gibbs via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

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