Steve,

We are considering that as well, but the remote office is fairly autonomous and 
several states away.

With limited bandwidth, replication of DR info to us is probably reasonable, 
but recovery would involve transporting data back to the remote office.

They already do backups to disks that are transported offsite, but we haven't 
brought them into the TSM fold as yet, which should greatly improve the process.

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Steven Langdale
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:25 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Small TSM environment with removable file volumes for 
offsite

Not really answering your question (sorry), but have you thought about
client side de-dupe and backing up to a TSM instance in your main DC?

For something that small, I'd look to a local TSM server as a last resort.

Steven

On 22 March 2012 16:29, Bob Levad <blevad AT winnebagoind DOT com> wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I'm looking at building a very small TSM environment to support a remote
> site.
>
> Since there are only a couple of terabytes of data and the change rate
> should be only a few hundred gig per day, what I'm thinking of is a TSM
> server with about 5TB of internal storage for onsite deduped file pools.
>
> For offsite, I want to use bare SATA drives as removable file volumes (not
> deduped).
>
> For the initial proof of concept, I'd use an inexpensive SATA dock with
> 3.5 inch 1TB or 2TB drives for the offsite copy volume and small (100GB or
> so) 2.5 inch drives for the data base backups.
>
> These drives would go offsite in plastic drive sleeves daily and reclaims
> would run from the onsite pools.
>
> I've found a little about using removable file pool volumes, but I wanted
> to run this by the experts to see what others may have tried.
>
> For disaster recovery, it might be nice if all the drives could be mounted
> in an enclosure (I don't think there will be over about a dozen offsite
> volumes) -- Maybe a Promise SAN in JBOD mode or something that can be used
> with bare drives.
>
> Bob
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