We do a lot of performance and capacity studies for customers. We used to only accept SMF/RMF data on tapes. Once we setup to allow customers to FTP data to us the use of tapes fell off. At the peak I received over 500 tapes in one year. Last I received 98 tapes, all the rest were FTP.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Howard Brazee <howard.bra...@cusys.edu>wrote: > On 24 Mar 2010 09:26:58 -0700, eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: > > >>> It's still the cheapest backup media. > >>I depends. Media itself is the cheapest one, but for small amounts of > data total cost of the solution may not be the cheapest. > >>Good tape drives are expensive. > > > >Who backs up small amounts of data at a time? > >When I said backup, I didn't mean users copying production fileds; I meant > real backups run by storage admin types (human or automatic). > > Some critical small files get backed up as soon as they are created, > often moved off-site. But more and more these days those are > handled via FTP instead of tape. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
