Gee. Doesn't 'single point of failure' count for anything any more? What happens when (not if) one of those tape goes bad or gets destroyed? That's one heckofa lot of data lost.
I guess that means one might want to have more than one copy. Two would be better. Gee. This solution is getting expensive. Just a thought. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: DFSMShsm & 3592 carts & money Nice subject? Anyway does anybody else out there have 3592 drives? Are you using them for DFSMShsm ML2 data? At present, we are debating putting HSM ML2 data on 3592 carts. The other option is to use 3490E __virtual__ carts and use OpenTECH's TapeCopy to stack the virtual carts onto physical 3592 carts. The main "worry" about this, in both cases, is that we won't get out money's worth due to having too little data on the individual 3592 carts. The number I heard is $200/cart, so we don't want to "waste" them. Any help? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
