Re: Storage Philosophy Question

[Gerard J. Nicol]

Dave,

Even if you mirror data to DASD I would still recommend that you still
backup to tape.

Tape introduces its own challenges, but it has the benefit that it is
designed to be taken off-line.

Being off-line makes it much harder to accidently or maliciously delete, and
in the event that you are ever in litigation the fact that it is off-line
and off-site is often in your interests.

A vault on the other side of the campus would not satisfy any credible
business continuity auditor (unless your campus is at least several miles
across).

Gerard

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As a State agency, it's the time we ask for money for the
 upgrades/replacements for the next year or two.
 Our z800-0B1 lease runs out and so we'll be looking at z9BC. We also
 have EMC 8230(?) dasd and 3590-A tape drives. A couple terabytes
active
 data, and more in migration/backup, etc. We're pretty small.
 
We have no mirroring at this time, we move tapes back at forth from
a
 vault on the other side of campus. The administration seems willing to
 allocate funds for a more robust Business Continuation infrastructure.
 
It's been suggested by the Operations Manager and also my boss(es)
 that we move to a tapeless model. That is that we acquire sufficient
 dasd and establish a mirror offsite. We would cease DFHSM migration
and
 do FDR or DFHSM version backups to dasd.
 
It appears the tape might be more expensive than disk. And you
don't
 need people to mount disks. We don't have a silo.
 
The questions I've been asked to ask are: Is anyone else doing
 something like this idea? Does it seem feasible? Or is it a really bad
 idea?
 
 I'm asking here because this seems a place to get some good
thoughts
 on this fast. My Director needs to talk with her VP next week, or
maybe
 the week after.

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Sample JCL to run a CA1 Inventory Report

[Gerard J. NIcol]

I was wondering if somebody had some sample JCL to produce a CA1 Inventory 
report, i.e. a Report 25.

I do not have access to the CA1 documentation, and have a customer who 
wants to run the report.

From memory CA tried to push people into using EARL and depreciated the 
Report 25 program, but later had a change of heart and retained the program.

A copy of the BrightStor CA-1 Utilities and Reports Reference Guide PDF 
would also be greatly appreciated if anybody has a copy handy they could 
email me offline.

Gerard

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Re: Tape Tracking Software to enhance CA-1

[Gerard J. NIcol]

Tc,

If you send my your contact details I can provide you with a product
comparison and some references.

Gerard

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:38:59 -0600, Thinkers Corner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

We are running OS 2.10 with CA-1 and wish to enhance the Tape Management
(Tracking of tapes which are barcoded).

They are looking at the following

TapeTrack Media Management Framework ( http://www.tapetrack.com/ )
and Vertices (http://www.tape-management.com/ or vertices.net)

Can I get your professional opinions and is there any other product to
consider...

RMM is already ruled out since they just install CA-1.


Thx

Tc

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