I am making the assumption that you: a) have no requirement for offsite storage or to put it in industry terms, a disaster recovery requirement, and
b) are comfortable with keeping all of your backups on virtual storage. Personally, I would be uneasy with this, because in the event of a catastrophic failure with your VTL (as highly unlikely as it is) your backups are gone. If you are a smaller shop, this risk is acceptable. On the upside, the performance increase is going to phenomenal. We just replaced a non-deduping EMC VTL with a newer one. One of the things that NetBackup required was to actually emulate the EMC virtual library. Otherwise, you will run into some licensing issues. No biggie, the EMC could emulate as many drives and as many tapes as the physical disk storage would allow. There is probably something similar with the Data Domain. "BeDour, Wayne" <wbed...@lear.com> Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 10/14/2009 09:32 AM To <veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Adding a DataDomain VTL need advice All Our environment HP-UX 11.31 a SureStore 20/700 library with 10 LTO-1 drives, NetBackup 6.5.2 Master / Media server and one Windows Media server using SSO. We are looking at purchasing a Data Domain device, eliminating the SureStore library as it is at its end of life and replacing it with a smaller library. We have no experience with a VTL or what pitfalls or things to look out for while setting up the new environment. Any advice on where to look to gather info, or experiences of what to look out for? Thanks in advance. Wayne BeDour Unix System Administrator PH: 313-593-9876 Internet: wbed...@lear.com ********************** ** LEGAL DISCLAIMER ** ********************** This E-mail message and any attachments may contain legally privileged, confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this E-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this E-mail message from your computer. ********************** ** LEGAL DISCLAIMER ** ********************** This E-mail message and any attachments may contain legally privileged, confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this E-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this E-mail message from your computer. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu PLEASE NOTE: The preceding information may be confidential or privileged. It only should be used or disseminated for the purpose of conducting business with Parker. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying to this message and then delete the information from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu