Content preview:  We briefly looked into doing replication, but trying to 
convince
    our user base (scientists) that they should get several petabytes of disk
    that they couldn't directly use would have been a non-starter. At the time
    we also "only" had 10Gbps Internet connection, and sync'ing upwards of 
50TB/day
    would have consumed a substantial part of that uplink. :) [...]

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We briefly looked into doing replication, but trying to convince our user
base (scientists) that they should get several petabytes of disk that they
couldn't directly use would have been a non-starter. At the time we also
"only" had 10Gbps Internet connection, and sync'ing upwards of 50TB/day
would have consumed a substantial part of that uplink. :)

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:38:30AM +0000, Abbott, Joseph wrote:
> I agree with Remco 100%.
> If you can stay away from NDMP.
> We have a large Isilon environment which we backup with TSM/NDMP. It run very 
> long, is absolutely horrific for restores.
> We are making the switch over to Isilon snapshots and replication both native 
> to the Isilon. These solutions outperform TSM/NDMP tenfold.

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