Sorry if I was not clear.  Network upgrade ETC is 6-8 months.  I was hoping
for an interim solution.  26G is the estimated daily output from the remote
sites.
I will be reclaiming the  drives for my Omaha site when network is in place.

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Richard Sims [SMTP:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
        Sent:   Wednesday, October 27, 1999 9:41 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: remote libraries?

        >Our company has 3 remote sites that want to backup 26G+/- per day.
Our
        >network is not prepared to handle this at present date.  I am
exploring
        >installing single 3590s on RS6000 at each site.

        Your company has to get realistic.  Upgrading your network to modern
        standards has to be cheaper than deploying very expensive tape
drives
        to each site and investing $$$ of sysprog/sysadmin time to make it
all
        work...somehow.  (And are those sites really backing up 26GB per
day,
        or is that just the size of their file systems, of which only some
part
        would be subject to incremental backup?)  You need the network
anyway,
        so might as well go for that.  Also consider the implied aspect of
the
        situation: being able to rapidly restore those file systems.

        A company of any size without decent networking is behind the times
        these days.
                         Richard Sims, BU