I guess I was whining, we were looking at no tapes at all on the zBox. Back-up disk to disk and flash to somewhere for LTO back up, but right now we are reconsidering and likely will go VTS. Looks like a Windows server solution is going to fit the budget :( It's cheaper than the maintenance on our 3590s.
I still think it's crazy to download from CA and then have the damn thing insist on a tape. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 12:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OEM software electronic download report card On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:17:14 -0700, Gibney, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >CA - F when we achieve our "tapeless" goal, we're stuck on a limb. > Your tapeless goal doesn't include any form of virtual tape? You won't volume backup any dasd - not even for recovery? Or will you do so to other dasd and only keep one (or a very minimal number) version. What about applications that want or need (perhaps for regulatory purposes) a backup copy of data every day and need to keep xxx days or months or years worth? Sounds like you'll need *a lot* of DASD. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
