On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:29:15 -0400, Pinnacle <pinnc...@rochester.rr.com> 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 I think he was talking about PC and Open Systems Backups, not Mainframe backups BTW we got rid of Tape backups (mostly using SMS rules) because DISK backup (with replication to DR) was cheaper than the maint on the Tape subsystems (not to mention the floorspace savings) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
