Back in January, I replace my old SCSI attached tape library. I now have 
an Overland Storage NEO8000 with 6 drives, plus a REO9000 which is 
sliced into multiple 1TB partitions which I have mounted on my media 
server (Sun Microsystems Ultra Enterprise 450 running Solaris 8 and 
NetBackup 5.1mp5) to use as DSSU's.

In the next two months, I will be switching from systems with direct 
attached drives, (which I backup over the network) to a full SAN.

Do I continue as I have? Backing up the clients over the (1000Base-T) 
network?

Can the DSSU partition be shared between the client and the media 
server, and client write directly to the DSSU, and the media server 
write it to tape?

Can the media server mount the clients (SAN) volume, and back it up to 
the DSSU directly.  (Although I see this option fought with backup 
management issues.)


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