On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:32:35 -0500, Jennifer Currell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We currently have a tape environment which is a mixture of virtual and non- >virtual tape. >We are soon to be going to a complete virtual tape environment. > >In the unlikely event that we might loose all our data we have a process >where we could restore from our tape backups. But how could we do this in a >virtual tape environment? > Is there back end tape or a tapeless solution? If 100% tapeless you need to be replicating it for disaster recovery. If you recover your systems from that virtual tape, you need a driving system of some sort to get started. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS 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
