Unfortunately just SnapMirror. SnapVault has no option to create tape baseline.
-----Original Message----- From: John Stoffel [mailto:john.stoffel@taec.toshiba.com] Sent: Thu 11/10/2005 11:16 AM To: Chan, Henry Cc: dleeds@edmunds.com; bparent@calvin.ucsd.edu; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: snapmirroring over WAN
Henry> We also had to back up our volumes to a remote site via Henry> snapmirror accross a T1 WAN. One of the vols was over 1TB and Henry> it would have taken days to create the initial baseline over Henry> the T1 so we snapped to SDLT tape, sent it down to CA and Henry> created the baseline in a "snap"! Now our nightly VSMs take Henry> about 2 hours for 5 gigs (our average delta size). Can you do this with SnapVaults, or just snapmirrors? This would be a great way to get an initial snapvault setup for my remote sites, since they are on fast links, but far away and the TCP bandwidth delay is killing my performance. John