OUCH!!!!

So you mean to tell me that you only have as many virtual drives as you
have physical drives?

That wouldn't have even made it onto my "for consideration" list, when I
was evaluating VTLs.

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clem Kruger [mailto:clem AT re-thinking-it DOT com] 
> Sent: August 30, 2007 11:02 AM
> To: Paul Keating; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 VTL direct to tape
> 
> 
> We have used VTL's and tape drives together. Using real 9940 
> tape drive and the VTL, we have set up in-line backups and 
> have found that the process is totally automated. All daily 
> backups are written to VTL and the weekly and monthly backups 
> are in-line backups. Every Monday there is a vaulting policy 
> which writes the catalogue to tape. The catalogue tape and 
> the weekly tapes are then ejected and sent off site.
> 
> The in-line solution is as slow as your slowest tape drive. 
> We have seen that our weekly backups run at some 10% slower 
> than the backups written directly to the VTL.
> 
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