I found the article useless. Especially having just completed another successful Disaster Recovery test using "tape". Brought up both z/os and windows using the same tape media without a single error.
Maybe he was referring to paper tape? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape 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
