Ron, Did you say "counter-intuitive"? Well that's exactly how we felt until we got our hands on a document titled, ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager Version 2 Release 1.5 Performance Evaluation Repo
Author: Michael Castillo <mcastill AT UTEP DOT EDU>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:37:07 -0700
Does anyone out there just dump to tape only and not store data on disk(ex.3390,3380)? Can this be done? Michael A.Castillo Software Systems Specialist Ph:747-5256 Fax:747-5067 Beeper :546-3756 E-Mai
Author: Rick Tsujimoto <rtsujimoto AT CUSA.CANON DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:04:30 EST
Yes, this can be done and this is how we do backups. *--* * Rick Tsujimoto * * * * rtsujimoto AT cusa.canon DOT com * * * * tel: 516-328-4554 * * fax: 516-328-4369 * *--* Does anyone out there just d
Author: MATTHEW SPARKS 05-025 <MSPARKS AT PINKERTONS DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:19:24 -0800
The drawback to this is you are limited to one machine per tape drive at a time, with disk you can have multiple machines backing up simultaneously. Matthew Makaala Sparks Desk (818) 380-8712 Senior
Yes, we use a small RS6000 to drive our 3494 and 3590s. We have just enough local disk for the ADSM database. All of our backup and archive copygroups point to locally defined single-level (no migra
When we first installed ADSM, I did a test backup directly to cartridge by setting up a Management Class of CARTRIDGE, to which I bound certain files. In the copy group for this Management class, I h
Author: Bradley King <king AT MONTROUGE.GM.SLB DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:58:21 +0100
I too agree that it can be done but... I used to do it like that but now I put a 1GB disk buffer between all of my clients and the tape drives. I have much faster backup response and as someone else
Michael, You can go directly to your tape drive but you must realize, your backups/archives will backup (queue) if you don't have enough tape drives. While a disk backup pool can handle many backups
Author: "Clendenny, Ronald D." <rdclendenny AT CAL.UE DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 06:34:59 -0600
Now why would there be an increase in the data transfer rate going direct to tape? That seems counter-intuitive. Was migration competing with the backup? Ron Clendenny <rdclendenny AT cal.ue DOT com>