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Recommend WORM Tape Solution?

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We are looking for a WORM tape solution and could use some recommendations that include an autoloader. Thanks in advance.

As a P.S: what kind of backup performance are you getting with your drive? We will be installing in a 1gb iSCSI environment as opposed to FC.
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Re: Recommend WORM Tape Solution?

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Most importantly, you will need Update 4, because Veeam did not support WORM until Update 4.
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Re: Recommend WORM Tape Solution?

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Thanks, Gostev. Guess I won't get many recommendations since U4 is just going out now! What tape devices did your QA team test on?
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Re: Recommend WORM Tape Solution?

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Hey Rick,

You can check the unofficial compatibility list in the Tape section of the forum. Thanks!
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Re: Recommend WORM Tape Solution?

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Thanks, Dmitry. The date of that list is almost 5 years old, so no doubt things have changed somewhat! Looking at a Tandberg LTO-8 to get the better 12tb/30tb per tape. Any thoughts about this one?
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Re: Recommend WORM Tape Solution?

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We have a Tandberg LTO-7 device in our own lab, not so fresh as you are looking now, but working without issues.
According to the information I've got from the QA team, Tandberg LTO-8 should work. Thanks!
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Re: Recommend WORM Tape Solution?

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Hello Rick.

We use an IBM 3573-TL E.20 and I have to say that it's quite reliable and fast. All time Throughput speed is ~600 MB/s.
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Re: Recommend WORM Tape Solution?

Post by Dima P. »

Thanks nitramd!

Regarding WORM media, there is no specific vendor requirement as WORM implementation is pretty generic across all the vendors (same as LTO format).

By the way, if you want to test WORM support without wasting tape media - you can use quadstor VTL, it has pretty solid WORM emulation available.
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Post by juerg.schneebeli »

I would suggest using Fujitsu CS8050 VTL (CS8000 Series) Appliance, which has the possibility to set WORM functions on VTL Tapes, NAS, S3, therefore more flexible then on physical tapes. As well CS8000 Series does Support NFS, CIFS, S3 (8.1 Release), VTL on the same Box. In higher models, mixed protocols are supported.
The WORM / Immutable functions can be set on NAS shares, VTL and S3 (Immutable), therefore a protection against Ransomware. During writing on a VTL Tape, the WORM retention time is handled by the VTL Appliance as example.
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