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at 02:11 PM, Leitner, Timothy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
We are exploring different options and the wintel side of the house is
heading down the totally tapeless path.
What are you backing up? Why? Which tapeless path?
If you have to protect against, e.g.,
As another difference, there are WORM tape cartridges available which are
quite unlike disk storage. Some industries require WORM capabilities. Also,
TS1120 drives can encrypt at the controller (in the drive), with keys
managed by z/OS's ICSF. That functionality is becoming increasingly
important,
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We have a similar issue in our shop. The midrange area wants tapeless. the
Mainframe side TAPE.
We have a VTS and ATL. We use the product DRVI to stack the VTS Tape backups
to an real tape and ship it offsite for DR purposes. Tape is cheap.
Leitner, Timothy wrote:
All,
How many places have implemented tapeless backup environments? I
don't mean virtual tape that has tape on the back-end but no tape at
all. We are exploring different options and the wintel side of the house
is heading down the totally tapeless path. That makes me
Leitner, Timothy wrote:
All,
How many places have implemented tapeless backup environments? I
don't mean virtual tape that has tape on the back-end but no tape at
all. We are exploring different options and the wintel side of the house
is heading down the totally tapeless path. That makes me
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:11 -0600, Leitner, Timothy wrote:
the wintel side of the house is heading down the totally tapeless
path. That makes me nervous but I'm getting old.
A friend once told me:
You drive like an old lady!
and I replied:
How do you think they get to be old
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Subject: Tapeless backup
All,
How many places have implemented tapeless backup environments? I
On 7 Mar 2008 12:41:47 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote:
How many places have implemented tapeless backup
environments? I
don't mean virtual tape that has tape on the back-end but
no tape at
all. We are exploring
We have a similar issue in our shop. The midrange area wants tapeless. the
Mainframe side TAPE.
We have a VTS and ATL. We use the product DRVI to stack the VTS Tape backups
to an real tape and ship it offsite for DR purposes. Tape is cheap. tape can
survive years in a dusty hole and still
I've implemented tapeless backup at several of our customer sites. The cost
is obscenely cheap, but it's not for everyone. The advantage it provides is
the ability to ship it easily once it's in the final format. It's
reshapable so that it can be stored on a SAN easily, but can also be
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