On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:31:28 -0800, Tom Webster
<webster AT SSDPDC.LGB.CAL.BOEING DOT COM> wrote:
>If you are just looking at a tape duplication solution, NovaStor
>makes Windows software to duplicate tapes. One of the DLT vendors
>(Fuji?) was giving the software away last year with the purchase of
>a five tape brick (the idea was to facilitate your coping data from
>older tape formats to DLT and thus buy more DLTs).
I remember looking at that solution when we were first doing the setup
of our library. Unfortunately we need both copies to be registered
with Networker, so the idea was shelved.
>On a larger-scale, I'd like to see NSR gain the ability to 'fan-out'
>writing to media, so that multiple copies of the backups can be written
>to different tapes as the backups are being done. The two stage process
>of backing up and then cloning for off-site disaster recovery copies is
>painful and time consuming.
We opened a case with Sun (and thereby a Legato bug/enhancement request)
about this, citing something similar that Veritas does. That was couple
years ago, so I'd have to dig a bit to find the ID if anyone's interested.
--TSK
Timothy S. Kimball tkimbal AT att DOT net._rm_this_bit
>Regards,
>
>Tom
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