> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pinnacle
>
> 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?
I can recall seeing only one "bum" tape in the past decade, and that was
a product tape, not a backup tape.
-jc-
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