Re: VTL questions -- MIDRANGE-L

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Another option to what Rob suggested is to be sure there is a physical tape drive with the remote VTL. Then at least in a disaster you could create a physical tape to ship back to your production site while you source a replacement server. Not great for file by file restores but then you would normally do that from the local VTL.

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On 2/11/2020 8:02 AM, Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

1) If the primary VTL failed, and you needed to recovery from the 2nd remote VTL, you would need a FC connection to access the remote VTL, correct?
Most of the VTL configs I've been reviewing do not include that.
They only have an IP connection between VTLs.

2) When a VTL volume is initialized and created, (larger then needed to include a full BRMS save), what happens to the unused space on that volume?
Should append be used to fill all VTL volumes?
Reason I ask, we currently "append" all our BRMS saves to get full use of each LTO7 volume.

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