And for those, you might look at VSSI's VTAPE product. It can use a
virtual tape for SPXTAPE. It might be cheaper than a tape drive (+
controller + cables + maintenance contract). I don't know what size your
system is, but the VSSI products are priced based on MSU. You can check
their website http://vsoftsys.com/ for information.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:47 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: 3590 tape drive support in zLinux/zVM?
As Richard says, VM dumps SO rarely that buying a tape drive for
that purpose is probably a waste of money. The only thing you absolutely
need a tape drive for is to back up spool files and NSSes such as CMS
and GCS. SPXTAPE can't deal with non-tape devices.
