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Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
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With IBM withdrawing from marketing their ProtecTIER VTL solution our company is now faced with the undesirable option of moving a petabyte of storage in Virtual Tape to directory container pools. This affects over 2000 nodes that have monthly backup sets created. When management realizes that IBM Spectrum Protect can not make backup sets out of the directory container pools, the use of IBM spectrum Protect will be revaluated and I will possibly be forced to move away from the product entirely. This is a serious issue that will affect all IBM Spectrum Protect customers who use IBM ProtecTIER VTL products.
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