Anyone Use a SCSI to iSCSI Bridge?
-
Have an older tape array that uses U320 traditional SCSI (parallel scsi) and would like to attach to it via iSCSI for more or less obvious reasons. Is anyone familiar with an adapter or bridge that would do this?
-
I have not used these myself but this company appears to have some devices that I think will meet your needs.
-
Thanks, taking a look.
-
Nice find, so the bridge is just a little box which is kind of what I had been envisioning.
-
Looks like it caps out at U160, not U320. Probably not a huge issue, but not ideal either. Here are the tech specs:
-
Might just be easier to slap on a cheap-o machine with a SCSI card and access it that way.
If this was a drive array, it might be different. Although tape libraries usually support the standard SCSI commands, once you obscure the process using devices rather than talk to it directly, it might not work as expected, e.g. cycle tapes when requested. I used to work on 42U tape libraries and I would never try to jerry rig one to work.
Depending on your backup solution, and especially since you have a SCSI tape library, I would go ahead and grab me as many disks as I can and make me a disk to disk to tape system. The clients stream straight to disk, your local machine streams to tape. No muss, no fuss, and can be done easily with even the Windows backup client. And it's usually faster and offers a bit of retention from waiting for tapes to return from the vault.
-
haha this question sounds more then a little familiar!!
-
-
Heh it's all good. I just got approval to move forward with new everything.. so I'm pretty happy about that!
-
@Dukat said:
Heh it's all good. I just got approval to move forward with new everything.. so I'm pretty happy about that!
That's good, I think that that is a far better strategy. So a new tape drive, even?
-
Sounds like a win.
