Barbara, We don't have tape drives, we use a FTP server for backup. Using Z/PDT, we run OpenSUSE , We gzip the z/os volumes when z/os is down the FTP them to the server for backup.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Jan 6, 2013, at 4:26 AM, ibmmain <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric, > >> Barbara - are you saying that very few have tape drives anymore, or just >> people with ADCD systems? I know most of the systems I work with have tape >> drives, but not all. > I am just saying that *we* don't have any tapes in our ADCD system. And I was > wondering if other ADCD installations have them. From your response, I am > assuming that no tapes is a restriction our (ADCD) provider put on us. (In > the 1.10 system, they had DFHSM active, which only migrated to level1. And > spouted a number of error messages whenever it started that I was unable to > fix without a lot of reading first. The 1.13 system came without DFHSM > active.) > >> I have to believe its cheaper to back >> up to tape than to DASD, and also a lot safer. > I agree. > > Barbara > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
