-----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