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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:28 AM
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Subject: Re: VSM(VT), Disaster Recovery, No Tapes
Harold,
I'll keep this short as I guess direct sales pitches
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 08:00:25 -0500, McKown, John
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As a user, I will say that we use VDR and it is quite nice. We use it to
create disaster copies of tapes in our VTS onto 3592J tapes.
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Who uses VDR with VSM? DR was one of the primary considerations in
going to the
We also use STK VSM's and 9940b's on the backend. I've used VDR in the
past and it does work extremely well, but it sounds like you are not going to
have any other tape drives other then backend drives and virtual drives. So
I'm not sure how VDR would help you. STK does have a feature with
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 08:30 -0500, John Benik wrote:
Or if you have the option of running
with clustered VSMs then you replicate to your DR site. The VSMs match all
your data is there. Let me know how it goes.
We do this - and replicate in both directions.
*Very* nice.
Shane ...
You could FTP those files to a PC running an FTP server / services, then
copy them to a USB key to take them to the DR site, I suppose.
I think you're going to have a problem determining the number of T1
cartridges you need. If you mix retention on the cartridge, then as you
say you have
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:28:20 -0400, Harold Zbiegien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are planning to implement a 100% virtual tape solution (VSM from STK)
with backend T1 drives in a STK silo. We will have NO real tape drives
attached to our z/OS 1.7 system. (I wasn't actively involved in the
We are planning to implement a 100% virtual tape solution (VSM from STK)
with backend T1 drives in a STK silo. We will have NO real tape drives
attached to our z/OS 1.7 system. (I wasn't actively involved in the choice,
but now I have to implement and make the solution work).
I have
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