On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:30:02 -0500, Jeffrey Deaver
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>Both will mirror the data on the back end for BCP purposes.  Why even keep
>the RTDs?  This stuff is inexpensive enough to keep all the tape data on
>spinning disk and fully mirrored.  We're seriously thinking about it.
>Probably works for us better than most, however, since we made a concerted
>effort over the last decade to keep people from using tape.  So its mainly
>just HSM and DB images at this point and its under 25TB of data.
>

Always talk of that, but we probably create at least 10TB (new) a day of just 
virtual tape.   That number doesn't include physical tape (mostly HSM and TSM).

I don't know the actual numbers, but I am going by how many MVCs we send
off site each day and how full they are.

Mark
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