Greetings! I'm looking at building a very small TSM environment to support a remote site.
Since there are only a couple of terabytes of data and the change rate should be only a few hundred gig per day, what I'm thinking of is a TSM server with about 5TB of internal storage for onsite deduped file pools. For offsite, I want to use bare SATA drives as removable file volumes (not deduped). For the initial proof of concept, I'd use an inexpensive SATA dock with 3.5 inch 1TB or 2TB drives for the offsite copy volume and small (100GB or so) 2.5 inch drives for the data base backups. These drives would go offsite in plastic drive sleeves daily and reclaims would run from the onsite pools. I've found a little about using removable file pool volumes, but I wanted to run this by the experts to see what others may have tried. For disaster recovery, it might be nice if all the drives could be mounted in an enclosure (I don't think there will be over about a dozen offsite volumes) -- Maybe a Promise SAN in JBOD mode or something that can be used with bare drives. Bob This electronic transmission and any documents accompanying this electronic transmission contain confidential information belonging to the sender. This information may be legally privileged. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on or regarding the contents of this electronically transmitted information is strictly prohibited.
