ARCSERVE pre-cache to hard disk

[mleggatt]

I have recently found that our Exabyte tape drive needs between 8-12Mb/sec fed to it in order to keep it in streaming mode and thereby reduce wear and tear from stop start operations during backups. The network here is not fast enough to do this, I intended to pull the backup to a large 150GB fast local SCSI hard disk and then back this up. I can probably do this manually with batch scripts e.t.c but I wondered if ARCSERVE 2000 is able to cache files to disk which can then be written to a tape drive at a faster rate than just pulling the data across the network.

 

[ajtmcse]

Create a file system device (as2000 with current sp, or Arcserve 9) and back up to it. Then do a tapecopy to your tape drive.

 

[mthomasdd]

Can you create a file system device on another server?

I setup a share on another server with a large unused HD. I then mapped a drive on the backup server to it and set it up that share as a file system device in arcserve.

It wasn't recognized though as readable media.

Has anyone done this?

Thanks.

 

[Cyklops]

Are you using ARCserve 2000 or v9 ??
With ARCserve 2000 this is not possible, with v9 it should work.

regards