GregE
ADSM.ORG Senior Member
We are still in planning phases of a data center move, and are looking to use DataDomain and remove physical tapes (I have other posts on that). Upper management wants to keep tapes and not do this and I'm trying to best explain the value of getting rid of physical tape.
We would have DataDomain at our main site, and at our DR site, replicating primary pools between sites. Long term archiving (12 years) is the issue, though we don't do that at all now. They don't like the idea of long term storage on disk. I'm thinking at minimum, using physical tape for ONLY archive pools (again, we have none currently), which would be minimal. I'd prefer to remove physical tape completely and be completely and VTL as far as "tapes" are concerned.
Our AS/400 team does their backups completely separate, using BRMS, and will still be using tape exclusively (their data DOES do the 12 year retention to tape), and we currently share a TS3584, so we could still share that and send archive tapes offsite.
I would much prefer to move away from physical tape completely, but I need good information to provide that makes a good case for that. Since I don't do any archiving with what we backup to TSM (Unix, Windows, SQL DB, Oracle DB), I don't have any experience in this realm.
Could you guys give me some info around this that would be helpful to provide?
We would have DataDomain at our main site, and at our DR site, replicating primary pools between sites. Long term archiving (12 years) is the issue, though we don't do that at all now. They don't like the idea of long term storage on disk. I'm thinking at minimum, using physical tape for ONLY archive pools (again, we have none currently), which would be minimal. I'd prefer to remove physical tape completely and be completely and VTL as far as "tapes" are concerned.
Our AS/400 team does their backups completely separate, using BRMS, and will still be using tape exclusively (their data DOES do the 12 year retention to tape), and we currently share a TS3584, so we could still share that and send archive tapes offsite.
I would much prefer to move away from physical tape completely, but I need good information to provide that makes a good case for that. Since I don't do any archiving with what we backup to TSM (Unix, Windows, SQL DB, Oracle DB), I don't have any experience in this realm.
Could you guys give me some info around this that would be helpful to provide?
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