This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Media Archiving. LTO?

Thursday, January 5, 2012

[Avid-L2] Re: Media Archiving. LTO?

Mr. Jeff could you educamate me on this a little. Is the Cache-A a whole system or just a lto drive in this case? I know both Cache-A and Storage DNA have many solutions and configurations. Are you using Storage DNA to access a Cache-A LTO-5 drive? Just trying to get the broad stokes of how your setup works with the two products.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Sengpiehl <jeff@...> wrote:
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> I've up dated my Cache-A, so it works with LTFS.. Which works out well
> with the Storage DNA system we installed late this fall.
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> JDS
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> On 1/5/12 12:19 PM, "Jeff Hedberg" <jeff@...> wrote:
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> >I've got the Pro Cache here - and like it a lot.
> >I don't care for it's built in file searching - but have started using
> >CDFinder as a way to keep track of every single file on every single tape.
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> >It does have it's peculiarities - however, it does its job very well -
> >and I feel MUCH safer than dealing with the large stack of drives we had
> >been accumulating.
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> >Most importantly, all of the retrieving of info on the tapes has been
> >very smooth.
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> >On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Mike R wrote:
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> >> Are facilities happy with their LTO workflows? I have been using a hard
> >>drive archiving plan, but feel like a longer term solution needs to be
> >>put into place. I was looking at the Cache-A archiving appliance, any
> >>experience with it?
> >> TIA
> >> -Mike
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