"Jennifer Currell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > We currently have a tape environment which is a mixture of virtual and non- > virtual tape. > We are soon to be going to a complete virtual tape environment. > > In the unlikely event that we might loose all our data we have a process > where we could restore from our tape backups. But how could we do this in a > virtual tape environment? >
The TS7700 VTS has a stand alone mount feature: via its GUI you can mount a virtual tape on a virtual unit and IPL from that. I don't know about other virtual tape systems, but I suppose they all have a similar features. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
