It's not what this guy is smoking, but what he is eating. We have a saying in Dutch: who's bread one eats, who's word one speaks (I hope I have the genetives correct). He clearly speaks the word of the company that feeds him.
Kees. "Rick Fochtman" <rfocht...@ync.net> wrote in message news:<4ba969df.9010...@ync.net>... > I haven't seen a bona-fide tape I/O error since my shop installed 3480 > drives, lo these many years ago. What's this guy smoking? Whatever it > is, I'm sure it's illegal! :-) > > Rick > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Pinnacle wrote: > > > Anybody read the Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape as a > > backup media? The guy writing it used to work for STK and Sun, and > > now works for disk-based backup vendors. He says the following: > > > > - 15% of all backups fail (my experience < 1%) > > - 10-50% of all restores from tape fail (my experience <1%) > > - 40-50% failure when restoring data from tape > 5 years (my experience > > again is <1%) > > > > So what are you guys seeing out there? Do we really have mainframe > > tape failure rates in the double-digits percentwise? If we do, then > > the guy is right and tape is dead, but I just don't buy those > > figures. What say you? > > > > Regards, > > Tom Conley > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > . > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
