Answer a few quick and easy questions first....
1. How long will you be required to restore data from the 800 tapes?
7 years, 5 years, 3 years or only 1 year?
2. How many restore requests are you getting?
Daily, weekly, monthly quarterly?
3. How much does your time cost the company to perform the above tasks
with a single tape or with the working adic?
4. How much does the repair cost?
Make your determination of your level of SQUEAL APPEAL based on #3 & #4
above.
If the numbers come up right, you could save the company money. If this
little exercise does not work, you can buy used adic2k boxes cheap...
search for them...
Now you said you have gone to DISK backup, is that Avamar, DataDomain,
EDL or ???
I love Avamar but it is NOT tape friendly, so even hanging a single tape
drive off your environment is going to make you want to drink.
DataDomain is better at hanging tape drives off of it, but still not
good...
Some may argue or I may get a call from an EMC tech sales engineer for
my personal opinion, but I think the EDLs are the best disk solution if
you also want to use tape actively.
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of terry.lemons AT EMC DOT COM
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 2:14 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] i2k library failed - no maintenance - how to
restore
Hi
Not sure why you're hunting me, as I'm no fountain of ADIC Scalar i2000
knowledge :).
Since you don't want to repair the robotics, but still want to avoid
manually looking for tapes, I'm not sure how to make this work. You
need the robotics working in order to scan the slot locations, to create
the map of what is where.
Anyone think of a way to make this work?
Thanks
tl
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
> On Behalf Of d3h614
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:11 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] i2k library failed - no maintenance - how to
> restore
>
> Using Legato 7.4 - we have a adic i2k library that is out of
> maintenance and the robotics failed. i really need to be able to
> restore data to a stand-alone drive -- does anyone know how to
> configure this so that i can do a restore to a standalone drive. We
> don't want to pay for parts and labor as we have just started to
backup
> to disk anyway - - but we have users that need restores from prior
> date. Do I need to remove the current library and jbconfig the new
> standalone on the networker server? I am trying to figure out a
> different way as we have 800 tapes in that library and I don't want to
> manually look for every tape each time a restore request comes in
until
> the retention is over. I welcome any ideas. thank you
>
> Terry Lemon .. you still out there :)
>
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