On Sat, 12 May 2007 05:39:32 +1000, Shane wrote: >On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 14:32 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: > >> And, BTW, I'm still not convinced that virtual tape >> is a good solution for backups. > >Until last week I thought they were great - we auto duplex across two >sites. >More options in the tape model emulated would be nice. One of the DBAs >tried a backup that wanted to go to more than 255 (virtual) tapes.
IMHO, the main benefit of virtual tape is that it allows you to better fill up your tape volumes. With a backup that goes to 255 virtual tapes, you are far past that being an issue. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
