> On 26 Oct 2023, at 1:48 pm, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > > Jon Perryman wrote: >> Googles cloud backup/recovery is very different from IBM z/OS.... > > You headed off on a tangent here that I don’t think I encouraged. I’m not > sure what you’re referring to.
As usual! > >> No IBM z system has cloud backup. You can't backup z/OS to >> any other cloud than that provided by TS7700. > > Yes, you really can! There are software-only cloud object storage > backup/restore solutions for z/OS. The two IBM products that are most > directly relevant are: > > IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS That’s one of our products. Our team was only talking about it this week. One of the team had just returned from customer visits in SE Asia and quite a few muti-national banks are using CTC so they can recover to data centers in different countries/continents. Everybody uses AWS S3. As you already mentioned, you can use zones and also replicate to other zones in different locales. When my previous company were acquired by Rocket Software we used AWS S3 to migrate our storage to the new machines. Modern internet bandwidth’s are orders of magnitude faster than what they were a decade ago. The entire process was seamless. In the old days we would have to dump everything to tape and put it on plane! > IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm > > These products are available individually or in the IBM Advanced Storage > Management Suite for z/OS license package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
