> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hindle, Greg [mailto:Greg.Hindle AT constellation DOT com] 
> Sent: December 1, 2005 10:10 AM
> To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VTL vs. Disk based backups
> 
> 
> Well one draw back that we have seen that mgt does not seem to
> understand is that this solution does not have hardware 
> compression, it
> is software which could slow things down and require a bigger powerful
> machine. 

>From what I saw, it requires something like, well in the HP world, a
DL360 or DL380, with a couple gigs of RAM.
Hardly a huge machine.
And yes you're right, since there is no hardware, there is no hardware
compression.

> Another thing too that I have seen is that the Falconstor SW
> does not talk to Veritas in terms of tape write and duplicates so you
> have to manage 2 systems to handle how your data is being written from
> disk to tape which Falconstore does without Veritas knowing about
> directly. 

In one of several possible configurations, this is true.

You CAN setup the Falconstor VTL to use barcodes different from your
physical tapes, then use Veritas' Vault or ITC or anything like that, to
write two copies, one to VTL and one simutaneously to tape, or to write
to VTL, then use Vault to dup to tape.
Lots of options.


Paul