Depending on the VTL involved, it will manage the cloning of data to physical 
tape.  If this is license-free, then it may be better to do this than to 
involve NetWorker, which will require a further jukebox license to cover this.  
The way it works on a CDL is that the CDL controls the physical library, and 
will load tapes and route the data to NetWorker that way.  Or so I believe - 
didn't have physical libraries on my last job :)
 
Cheers,
 
Stuart.

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion on behalf of mark wragge
Sent: Thu 16/08/2007 11:39
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] new to Virtual Tape Library - what are the benefits?



Does this mean that there is a way to stage data from a VTL to physical tape? 
Is this controlled from networker administrator staging OR from the VTL 
administration software?
  
  At the moment we are cloning from VTL to physical and then re-labeling the 
VTL tape to free up space. is there a better way requiring less manul 
intervention to free up disk space (assuming that retention periods cannot be 
changed).
  
  Thanks again for all these tips.

Dag Nygren <dag AT NEWTECH DOT FI> wrote:
  > Essentially you can get disk to disk backup speeds, and can do dynamic drive
> sharing. Of course, you do loose the ability to read and write at the same
> time, that you get from an advanced file type device.

If you are into staging savesets around, you will also not free up space
until all the savesets on the tape have been staged...

I personally think that it is better to invest in more space for your
ATFD

Best
Dag

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