Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Richard Sims
On Mar 19, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Schneider, John wrote: ... They had spare servers at the central site, and if a significant restore had to be done they would restore it to the local server and ship it overnight. ... Wow...talk about corporate security issues! And we thought wayward offsite tape

Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Schneider, John
lf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looong 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

Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Bill Boyer
perience. Your mileage may vary.) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looong distance backups And figure out what you are going to do i

Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Kauffman, Tom
customs faster. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schneider, John Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:25 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Looooooong distance backups Wanda brings up the most important poi

Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> 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, b

Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:00:12 -0400, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: > We are discussing the viability/possibility of having TSM clients in Qatar > backing up to our TSM servers, here in Richmond! > Is this possible? Feasible? Sure. > What are the implication of such a lon

Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Thomas Denier
-Zoltan Forray wrote: - >We at VCU (Richmond, VA) have a "campus" at Doha, Qatar >(approximate distance is 7K miles). > >We are discussing the viability/possibility of having TSM clients in >Qatar backing up to our TSM servers, here in Richmond! You may need an unusually large amount of b

Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Dominique Laflamme
.) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looong distance backups And figure out what you are going to do in case of a system fail

Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Schneider, John
er [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looooooong distance backups I've got customers doing a few trans-atlantic backups. TCP/IP is a pretty forgiving protocol; there really isn't mu

Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Wanda Prather
I've got customers doing a few trans-atlantic backups. TCP/IP is a pretty forgiving protocol; there really isn't much difference in the issues doing a backup across 7K compared to 1K. It's all about the amount of data and the size of the pipe. I assume they already have I/P connectivity to you at

Re: Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-19 Thread Large, Matthew : Barclays Wealth
nager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: 18 March 2008 20:00 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Looong distance backups We at VCU (Richmond, VA) have a "campus" at Doha, Qatar (approximate distance is 7K miles. We are discussing the viability

Looooooooooong distance backups

2008-03-18 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We at VCU (Richmond, VA) have a "campus" at Doha, Qatar (approximate distance is 7K miles. We are discussing the viability/possibility of having TSM clients in Qatar backing up to our TSM servers, here in Richmond! Is this possible? Feasible? What are the implication of such a long distance ba