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- Path: sparky!uunet!murphy!jpradley!colornet!dfilip
- From: dfilip@colornet.UUCP
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Remote Tape Facility, DAT drive hooked to MicroVAX ...
- Keywords: Thruway
- Message-ID: <98@colornet.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 00:02:02 GMT
- References: <23JUL199207563355@bestsd.sdsu.edu>
- Distribution: world
- Summary: Look into Thruway as well
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- Mike McCurdy writes :
- >We are in a budget "crunch" here and so I am trying to figure out the
- >cheapest way to purchase a DAT tape drive(s) for our 6000-320 and MicroVAX
- >3100 - not that I wouldn't be anyway :). I want our backups to be quality
- >though - I don't want to set up something that I have any doubts about. We
- >are currently running with 9 track drives and are up to about 30 6250 bpi
- >tapes on full backups.
- >
- >The cheapest way that I can think of to accomplish this is to purchase a
- >DAT drive, hook it up via SCSI on our MicroVAX, and then access it remotely
- >from the 6000-320 via a remote tape program. I've heard that Remote Tape
- >Facility developed by Touch Technologies may be what we are looking for
- >in this scenario.
- >
- >Is anyone else doing something along these lines? Does this sound like the
- >optimum solution? Thanks ...
-
- Don't know anything about Remote Tape Facility, but we did the same thing
- in twelve of our largest sites using a product called Thruway from
- Software Partners. Actually, we were backing up 63xx's and 64xx's
- to an 8mm on a 3300.
-
- Only real problem was, of course, when the network was flakey, the connection
- would be lost to the 3300, and the backup would abort. Thruway had logicals
- that could be set to control things like buffer size so we could tune it
- to some degree, however your network becomes your weakest link.
-
- I would check out Thruway as well; I am not associated with Software Partners
- in any way, but think they have a good product, and they do provide free
- loaners and good technical support.
-
- Regards,
-
- Dave.
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