Hello,

We're in the process of configuring a new TSM server in an offsite location,
and we need to decide on the tape technology that we're going to use.

Some information on our backup mechanism : we do use collocation, and use
incremental forever (we never take full backups).  Some of our file servers
are huge, and contain 500.000 - 1.000.000 files.

LTO seems to be a very good solution (data rate, capacity,...) but I am
afraid that the "streaming"  effect (instead of the 3590 start/stop) will
cause full volume restores to take forever.

Is there anyone who want to share some information on the tradeoff between
start/stop and streaming versus price?

Thanks,  Luc.

Luc Verellen
Johnson & Johnson
Beerse/Belgium