----- Original Message ----- > On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:08:04 PM UTC-5, Kent Perrier wrote: > > > > And have it replicated across data centers so that when a DC pukes > > on itself (power outage, backhoe incident, act of God, Godzilla vs. > > Mothra) its No Big Deal(TM) to business as usual. > > > > I think the technology behind products like Data Domain is the way > > to go. > > With RTOs decreasing you don't have the time to pull the data off of > > tape. We have a small DDR (3.25 TB of usable space) where I work, > > and with our > > workload we are storing 16TiB of raw data in less than 1 TiB of > > disk. Add > > the flexibility for replication and rapid restore on top of that > > then the > > writing is on the wall for the use of tape for anything other than > > an archive tier. > > > > Kent > > > > > I'd have to agree here. VTL is much faster than tape and lower TCO. > We've run a pair of DD-510's (mainframe) and a pair of DD-530's (*nix > & WinDoze) > for several years now with great results. We're just now replacing the > DD-530's with an Avamar solution, so we'll see how that goes.
Heh, I didn't know there was a term for what I did years ago when our tape library died again. We just chucked a few drives in our CORAID AOE device, and told Bacula to use the filesystem, but no more than 10 gigs per file. This gave us a great way to "Recycle" tapes as we filled the drives up. 10gig was deemed about the biggest we wanted to use because even though it was disk, it was read as if it was tape, so it meant our data start shouldn't be more than 10gigs of reading away. Our beginning of month job spanned several "tapes" then. Just WOW that the industry is catching up to our 2008 solution. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
