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OK, I'm gonna ask this here. We have a 3590J tape subsystem. We have the
large, 300 GiB native, carts. Due to the time that it would take to fill
one up and restore the contents at D.R., we only really use about 1/4
the capacity. Does anybody use one of these to full capacity? If so, for
what? The thought of how long a restore would take of the entire
contents just staggers me. Oh, we also use them for our VTS backstore.
So I guess that it actually uses most of the capacity. Is anybody else
paranoid about what happens if one of these monsters snaps or is
otherwise rendered unreadable? We currently duplex all of our off-site
backups due to this and the possibility of damage during transport.
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We always used the FDR products for backups, etc. and the FDRDRP product
for DR restores. Using full-capacity tapes, fully loaded, we cut our
basic restore time for DR testing from 4 hours (on 3490E) to 40 minutes
(on 3590J). Need I say more? (We did DR preparedness tests on a
quarterly basis.)
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