I was responding to the statement, "There probably are stand-alone versions of the other vendors' backup products," in the last append before mine. I was confirming that at least one vendor did have a stand-alone utility so those who use it do not need DDR for DR.
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Feedback requested on proposed DDR requirements I'm not sure how that is any help to sites which depend on DDR. Brian Nielsen On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:09:48 -0700, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot= e: >There probably are stand-alone versions of the other vendors' backup products. There is for CA's VM:Backup Hidro. > >Regards, >Richard Schuh > > -----Original Message----- >From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen >Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:06 PM >To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU >Subject: Re: Feedback requested on proposed DDR requirements > >On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:37:07 -0400, 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. >> >>-- db > >I don't see how that removes the need for CMS DDR. If anything it seems= = > >to strengthen it because standalone DDR wouldn't have access to whatever= = > >is doing the tape handling. I don't think you meant we wouldn't need = >standalone DDR because that will always be needed as a last resort for == > >when CMS is not available, and therefore it has to be able to read what = = > >CMS DDR wrote. This requires the media handling function to be part of = = > >standalone DDR, which seems contrary to your comment. Please clarify in= = > >case I misunderstood you. > >Brian Nielsen >========================= ========================== =======================
