Arc Serv plus VTL plus tape library ? Please advice

[polani]

Guys

I am newbie for Arc serv solutions and about to configure a VTL with data dedup solution with Arc serv.

My question is that if i do backup from Arc Serv ( V12 on windows 2003) to a VTL ( with hardware dedup ), will Arc serv have the capability to move the data from VTL to physical tape library?

Another problem is that VTL emulates LTO-2 tape drives while physical library have LTO-3 tape drives? will it impose any problem with Arc serv backups?

Please advice

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[davidmichel]

well first off as an instructor lets start with the name. It is ARCserve.

Again as an instructor, which means you will be instructing others it really would be a good idea to read the documentation, starting with Staging.

#2 - no problem, ARCserve can handle it.

 

[polani]

hi,

Thanks for sharing information... and i am shocked with information that so called "staging" is a licensed feature... it seems to me a miserable fact that while almost every backup vendor is providing this kind of common feature of writing backups to disk and then to tape as free , CA still wants to earn money out of this common requirement?

Is it really true that i can not write CA backups to VTL unless i have this so called " disk to disk to tape" license on CA?

please clarify...

thanks



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[davidmichel]

save the attitude for some other place and keep this to technical stuff unless you want to loose me.

bkup to vtl works without staging

 

[polani]

Hi

I am sorry that you mind it but my question was clear and i still think that CA is still charging too many features which are free in other backup products...

But may be in basic features CA is cheaper than others

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