Good call, Wanda. Joseph, please post the email addresses and home phone numbers of your upper management here so we can help you convince them. Or print our our responses and anonymously put them in your manager's in box.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge That's insane. Sounds like the best bet for cost savings would be to focus on elimiating some upper management!!! -----Original Message----- From: Wholey, Joseph (IDS DM&DS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge A "little" off the subject, and I already heard Richard Simms view on not having a second copy... but what are most shops doing with respect to a second copy. I'm in a pretty large shop and upper management, in a cost savings effort, wants us to turn off the creation of a second tape copy. I'm not too comfortable with the idea. What are "your" thoughts? -----Original Message----- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge Try doing a move data to get the data off of the tape. If I find I am starting to have problems I usually do a: update vol VOLUMENAME acc=reado move data VOLUMENAME This should move all data that is recoverable from the volume to another volume in the same storage pool. I then eject the offending volume and check it for apparent physical issues. Then the part I hate: delete vol VOLUMENAME discarddata=yes Sometimes I am able to re-label the volume and use it again. But typically it gets moved to a less critical use, returned to the vendor for a new tape [my preferred method], or degaused and distroyed by a certified vendor [least preferred, paying to have it thrown away]. If anyone has a better method, please let me know! ... JC -----Original Message----- From: Gerhard Rentschler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge Hello, I forgot to mention that because of lack of resources I can't afford a copypool for the backup files. I have one for the archives. Best regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschler email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Juan Manuel Lopez Azanon > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge > > > Disaster recovery management: Restore it from outside volumes from copy > stgpool >
