On Thursday, 10/26/2006 at 02:37 AST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My comment would be to move the actual tape handling part out of DDR > entirely and let the data storage be handled by something else, eg a > pipe connecting to the input or output of the DDR engine. Then it > wouldn't matter how we were storing the data, and all the positioning > stuff could be out in user space, so DDR wouldn't need to know or care. > > Then we wouldn't need CMSDDR any more.
I thought this was an issue that commercial Backup/Restore programs dealt with (if you want something off-the-shelf). Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
