Remote Storage on tape question

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Richard West

I am evaluating setting up remote storage to a tape library for my company.

I have a question though. What happens when a file is deleted? Is the file
removed from the tape system, and the "tape space" recovered, and can be
used for future backup operations?

For example, let's say that I have 100GB of disk storage on my server. My
tape library has 500GB of storage. As files start to accumulate on the
server they are eventually moved of to tape. After six months, both my
server and my tapes are full. However, in this set-up, I do not need to keep
data that is older than six months. Instead of continually adding more and
more tapes to the library, and having access to every file forever, is there
a way to delete files from the server, and thus remove them from tape? This
way new data would still be moved to tape, without the need my adding more
tapes, and then having to manually load them into the tape library system. I
would always have the most recent 600MB of data files available?

I understand that I would probaly need to manually delete the files that I
choose to make space, however I just need to know how the system will handle
this, and if it will re-use the tapes that it has access to.

Thanks!

Richard
 
Ok first of all...your tapes run in sycronous order. If
you delete something from the center of it the you have a
hoel in the center of it until you rebuild it. When you
rebuild it it takes all of the info and rearranges it to
fit on the tape better. But to have it run as a active
file server it will run extremely slow becasue of the fule
seek time that it has to look for. Good luck but the only
way you will want to do this is make an active back-up or
maybe even archive it on the tapes. Other than that i
would use the servers HD's for active file usages...
 
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