Thinking outside the box a little, if you have multiple clients in Qatar, how much trouble would it be to set up a TSM infrastructure in Qatar? Buy a server of whatever type you like to support, with enough disk to contain the entire backup data set of all the clients. If you use your includes so you only include the data that you really need, and don't keep back too many versions, and compress at the client, this might not be too much disk.
We have a remote site with 50 clients, and a 4TB array (one drawer of 500GB SATA drives, subtracting RAID and spare drive) is enough to hold all the backup data. If you require an offsite copy (and you should), you might be able to send that using server-to-server to a TSM server here. Do your "backup stgpools" and "backup db" to virtual volumes in the US, multi-threading as much as possible. Also do a "backup db" to file stgpool locally. It will all depend on how much data you back up each day whether you can keep up. The advantage of this approach is that day-to-day restores will be done locally in Qatar, and therefore fast. The only time you need the remote copy is for the real disaster. Best Regards, John D. Schneider Lead Systems Administrator - Storage Sisters of Mercy Health Systems 3637 South Geyer Road St. Louis, MO 63127 Phone: 314-364-3150 Cell: 314-486-2359 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looooooooooong distance backups >> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:03:04 -0400, Wanda Prather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: > And figure out what you are going to do in case of a system failure. > If the total client is many GB, how long will it take you to restore > the whole thing? Frequently on a WAN, incremental backups are > practical, but full restores aren't - a good strategy is to keep a > spare server in your data center; in case you need a full system > rebuild, do it locally and then Fedex the box to where it needs to go > -- it will get there faster! At the risk of being a fanboy, "What she said". Again, this is a simple extrapolation from going across the street, off your network. At UF, we have some offices that are a few miles off campus (Distance Education, natch) and we see situations where it would be faster to unrack the new box, drive it across town, and restore at Gb speeds than to fill up their link for a few days. - Allen S. Rout
