14 Sep
2015
14 Sep
'15
8:02 p.m.
I work for a VAR, and we've sold a fair number of IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER VTL's
backed by Storewide V7000 disk. It basically emulates a bunch of LTO3 drives and
cartridges, and does excellent deduplication when writing. If you have two, they'll
replicate. It makes a great backup and DR solution and is a fairly straightforward
shoehorn into existing tape-based workflows. Then again, there is still lots of tape out
there, and as was pointed out earlier, the technology is always improving, and rapidly.
Not everyone is looking to go disk-only, either. (yet) The more data you have to store,
the more and more tape makes sense.
-Ben
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From: cctalk [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] on behalf of Dave G4UGM [dave.g4ugm at
gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 4:13 PM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: Is tape dead?
I spoke to my former employer and they are ditching tape. They want off-site
replication and if they have an off-site replica they see no need for
tape.....
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Richard
Loken
Sent: 14 September 2015 23:56
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Is tape dead?
The death of tape is greatly exagerated.
My duties today included removing 50 tapes from our Storagetek 500 tape
library and sending them offsite for safe storage. These are LTO-5
cartridges
that can hold up to 30 Tbyte of compressed data and it
can be written on
the
tape with astonishing speed.
On the other hand, my employer is bored with 40Gbyte DLT cartriges
because 40Gbyte is little more than a SSSD 5-1/4" floppy disk these days
so I
now can have them for free. I have a DLT4000 backing
up my toy OpenVMS
box here at the office and another DLT4000 backing up my toy FreeBSD box
at home.
As for cartidges, I am overwelmed with media - including three unopened
cartons of NIB DLT-IV cartridges.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a
father
Athabasca University : but you have to earn
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of
'daddy'"
** richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca **
: - Lynn Johnston