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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:20:31 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "Limato, Dave" <Dave.Limato@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: plan for adding DMIP and NDMP to MD
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:58:09 -0700 "Limato, Dave" <Dave.Limato@lsi.com>
wrote:

> Hows it going,
> 
> Do you have all the sequence of events and dependencies for the tasks
> that have to be done? What can I do to help? I think the HP is the
> way to go my man. Shaunnie says 48 tapes is its capacity and we
> should get 800GB per tape, more with compression. Native is 800.

Good.  Yeah, I somehow got the impression it was a manual changer.

> I am going to try and get a quote for a new drive, this seems like a
> good reason to buy more gear for the lab. If you get the Quantum
> going fantastic. The more the merrier. I am sure we will find issues
> when 2 robots with 4 tapes are connected. Have a good night. Dave

Absolutely you should order a second drive.  If for no other reason
than one drive might fail, and if that happens we don't want to be
stuck.  Also, as you said, we want to do multiple NDMP streams
simultaneously and all that rot.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@lsi.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:40 PM
> To: Limato, Dave
> Cc: Stark, Brian; Scheer, Larry; Hardiman, Richard
> Subject: Re: plan for adding DMIP and NDMP to MD
> 
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:10:55 -0700 "Limato, Dave" <Dave.Limato@lsi.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I like the name of the page. 
> > 
> > Here are more details and notes. I'll hold on putting them on wiki.
> > 
> > 2 quick notes,
> > 
> > We have an HP device in the lab, much more capacity and more current
> > than that piece of metal in the corner that has been powered down
> > since about 2007. Its LTO4 so 800GB per tape. Also, lets use
> > netbackup as 
> > 
> > a.)	Its what Corp uses
> > b.)	Its on our compat matrix.
> 
> Except that it's manual and it only has one head.  I assume then that
> you're volunteering to change the tapes? ~:^) And I haven't seen any
> tapes for it.  Current doesn't concern me much.  It's 800 with
> compression, yes, so really 500?
> 
> And it ain't cool at all.
> 
> But come to think of it, we should definitely use both.
> 
> netbackup: yes, we should use that too.
> 
> Using amanda will be useful for a couple of reasons: we can start
> right away as there's no licence issues or payments to be made;
> because we have source and gdb, we can debug things from the app
> direction not just the wire or the filer.
> 
> Good additions, I will update the wiki page.
> 
> > Cheers! 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@lsi.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 7:48 PM
> > To: Stark, Brian
> > Cc: Limato, Dave; Scheer, Larry; Hardiman, Richard
> > Subject: plan for adding DMIP and NDMP to MD
> > 
> > Brian,
> > 
> > Here is the plan as I've written it down so far.  Dave, Rich and
> > Larry have all helped to put this plan together so far.
> > 
> > http://wiki.onstor.net/wiki/SMILE_through_the_pain%21
> > 
> > My plan is to get a contractor to set up the DMIP to B-town.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > a
