Preston de Guise wrote:
> 
> This is certainly a good indication that we have user groups with  
> wildly varying requirements. While I have some users that fall into  
> the above category - rare restores, I've equally had plenty that  
> *frequently* recover - yes, the 400-600+ recoveries per day customer  
> that I mentioned previously was atypical (in fact, it was effectively  
> using NetWorker for HSM - and when I logged a support call about it  
> once the Legato tech thought I'd added an extra 0 onto the end of both  
> figures...), but I've had plenty where 10-20 recoveries per day is the  
> norm.


I effectively use my AFTDs as an HSM - or more accurately, a data warehouse 
(about 30 TB of database dumps).  We don't do 400+ recovers in a day, but 60+ a 
day and 400+ a month would not be pushing it (all of them averaging about 2-6 
gig each).  Most of them needing to be done ASAP-INS (mostly for various types 
of audit).

For us, AFTD is also winning; We had a transitional period on all-LTO (which a 
VTL is supposed to emulate anyway).  It was annoying at times to get everything 
done within a reasonable time, while still allowing a timeframe for our Ops 
guys to do restores.



> However, I certainly remain hopeful of seeing some changes to AFTD in  
> NetWorker Real Soon Now, as it's starting to get annoying that we  
> still can't:
> 
> - Run multiple stage operations
> - Run multiple clone operations
> - Failover a saveset from one DBU to another if it fills
> - Better balance backups so that a small number of DBUs see a  
> disproportionate number of backups due to 'archaic' tape based volume  
> selection algorithms
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Preston.


I'd like to add to this list:

- Run a Stage and Clone at the same time (which alone would be nice)
- De-dupe natively on an AFTD.  [Pipe Dream, I know.  ;) ]

--TSK
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