Background:
Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition 5.3.2.2
Op System AIX 5.3 ML 3
Nightly Backup 2 -2 1/2 TB
Library - ADIC I2000 Scalar
18 LTO Tape Drives
LTO 2 Tapes
600 slots
Clients - 135 (Wintel)
AIX -26 (Sybase, SQL, and DB2)

We are looking into Virtual Tape Technology for our environment.    1 1/2s
TB data first backs up to disk then to onsite tape then we make a backup
of our onsite tape to a copy stgpool and store those tapes offsite  for
disaster recovery.    The other 1 TB of data is a DB2 database that we
back up directly to onsite tape and of course make a copy of the onsite
tape to offsite tape for disaster recovery.   We can't get our backups
done and out the door to meet our RTO objective.     We are looking to add
a VTL and reduce our tape drive and slot capacity in a new library  to
offset some of the cost for a virtual tape library.    We would like to
also take advantage of collocation and setup library sharing too.


I would like to know what vendors you are using for virtual tape?

Pros/Cons(Any regrets, Success Stories).



Thank You.


Nancy Backhaus
Enterprise Systems
(716)887-7979
HealthNow, NY
716-887-7979

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