Overland Storage REO 9000 setup guide Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape D2D2T Backup Capabilities, Reo

Setup Guide

Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T) Backup Capabilities

The REO Appliance is a storage resource used by a single backup server or shared by multiple backup servers using an Ethernet or FC network. By using standard backup software, you can copy backup data that resides on the REO Appliance to tape for long-term data retention.

The following illustration shows application servers sending backup data over a 10/100 or Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) LAN to backup servers sharing REO Appliance D2D storage over GbE or FC.

Application servers

Ethernet/FC

Backup Network, 10/100/1000 BaseT

Ethernet

Storage-Area Network, GbE or FC

Ethernet/FC

Backup Server

Tape

REO

In addition to being part of the LAN, the backup servers, and the REO Appliance are part of the GbE backup SAN.

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