David,
We replicate tapes between our two DC's using our EMC DD2500's. It's done automatically. We regularly restore at one DC from a save performed at the other DC.
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Subject: Re: Advice needed: Virtual off-site backup solution
Folks:
Thanks for the input ...
Rob:
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.
I think I knew that, but thanks for clarifying.
I've used virtual tape, to create CD product images, but the image catalog & ifs space were local.
2-There is nothing stopping you from taking the image catalog entries
and FTPing them to another system.
The problem is storage ... if I save the libraries to the local file system, I risk running out of storage (we have plenty, but not enough to duplicate everything).
My object is to be able to do save & restores using a virtual device so it's completely transparent. Ideally so that all my guest partitions can use a single backup location.
Steve & Larry:
I want the backups, and off site copies, to be stored within the company infrastructure (but at a remote location, like one of our data centers)... not dependent (or paying for) a 3rd party.
david
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