On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:30:02 -0500, Jeffrey Deaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Both will mirror the data on the back end for BCP purposes. Why even keep >the RTDs? This stuff is inexpensive enough to keep all the tape data on >spinning disk and fully mirrored. We're seriously thinking about it. >Probably works for us better than most, however, since we made a concerted >effort over the last decade to keep people from using tape. So its mainly >just HSM and DB images at this point and its under 25TB of data. > Always talk of that, but we probably create at least 10TB (new) a day of just virtual tape. That number doesn't include physical tape (mostly HSM and TSM). I don't know the actual numbers, but I am going by how many MVCs we send off site each day and how full they are. 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