Gene Calai wrote:
> In fact, I was able to find a better way.  I regularly receive flyers from
> a company called Cybernetics advertising various backup solutions.  They
> have a line of devises called the High Speed Tape Cache (HSTC).  These
> devises are meant to help shops streamline backup by doing Disk-to-Disk-to-
> Tape backups.  After a little more research of my own and phone calls to
> their very technical salesmen, Steve Jones, I was convinced this was the
> solution for us.  They typically work with AS/400 shops, but stated that
> they thought their technology would work on 3000s too.

Sounds pretty cool.  We do ours a little slower and more indirect, but
then again we only have one 3000 left.  We TurboStore 2x24 to tape by
the old school method, but then run again to disk, and FTP that up to a
RedHat box that gets backed up to our DLT library via Legato.  We almost
bought the Legato client for MPE (while it was available and supported)
to get it to the DLT library, and looked at iSCSI and FC SANs, but have
thus far been able to muster the demand to justify the capital expense.
  I'm sure we will continue to take our annual wishful glance at a SAN
but at this point we're comfortable with old and slow and no pressing
need to reduce the backup window.  We use Legato pretty heavily on our
other systems (HPUX, linux, Netware, various Windows).

And to answer the original question, we could just as easily FTP the
file up to a windows box.

Jeff

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