Have you considered burning CD-ROMs or DVDs for storage, rather than
tape? Drives can be less expensive, the media is dirt cheap compared to
tape and for historical purposes the result will probably last far longer.
Rick
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Matan Cohen wrote:
As a small develop company which don't use the tape to archive only for
backups.
We are in the processing of get rid of our 3590 (actually the tape driver
stop working yesterday).
we found that it will be the best solution for us is to backup our DATA to
disk and then send it to other more cheaper platform (windows) which will
manage the writing to tapes.
so all of this step is more for getting rid of the 3590 not Tapes from the
cost aspect .
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Gibney, Dave <gib...@wsu.edu> wrote:
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Subject: Re: Disk replacing Tape?
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 16:20 -0700, Ed Gould wrote:
Over the last few years I have seen more and more articles stating
companies are replacing tape drives with disk drives.
I realize that most of the talk is from small computer users.
However I
am seeing and hearing stories that the movement has started with
mainframes. I was wondering if anyone on here is seeing that trend
or
staying the same (or increasing). Now I know tape capacity is going
through the roof and that might be the reason why some people are
saying disk is replacing tape. Disk space is really becoming
cheaper
so its not impossible that this might be happening.
From my (admittedly dated) perspective, until the ability to share
disk drives (transparently) I do not see the use of tape really
decreasing all that much. I would like to hear from the list what
their thoughts are about disk replacing tapes on the mainframe
happening. Soon/not in the next 20 years/never.
Ed
I often wonder how these non-tape users address things like 10 year
archival copies of programs, data, and reports. Which we need for
legal
reasons.
DFHSM with SMS MGMTCLAS controlled retention.
We also have Control-D for report management and CA-Endevor for source
management.
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John McKown
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