8, 2020 3:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: Storage & tape question
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Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:58 AM
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Subject: [External] Re: Storage & tape question
We had a similar problem occurs, long ago, with an actual SAN dasd array (for Windows, not MVS).
Weekend backup to physical tape aborted on a Sunday. The Windows admin said &
We have never seen that. We always use raid 6 for both our VTL AND DASD
products with multiple hot spares.
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> On Jul 7, 2020, at 6:31 PM, Grant Taylor
> <023065957af1
On 7/7/20 12:41 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
Has anybody else heard this?
I've heard of and have experienced this multiple times.
The stress of rebuilding can push other marginal drives over the edge.
This is why RAID with multiple parity drives is now critical.
Especially with larger and larger
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Subject: [External] Re: Storage & tape question
We had a similar problem occurs, long ago, with an actual SAN dasd array (for
Windows, not MVS). Weekend backup to physical tape aborted on a Sunday. The
Windows admin said "No problem, it's a RAID-5 array,
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John McKown
Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:58 AM
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Subject: [External] Re: Storage & tape question
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:19 AM Jackson, Rob
wrote:
> Fun little note on RAID:
