W dniu 07.07.2020 o 07:28, Timothy Sipples pisze:
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
I forgot something obvious for me: NEVER USE TAPES FOR APPLICATION
DATA. No jobs should write or read tapes.
Nothing except backup and restore and (optionally) ML2. Managed by
HSM or FDR. Some excepions for archive copies are worth to consider.
I take your point, but "NEVER" is too strong. And you're acknowledging
there might be some exceptions, so let's dig into them a bit.
One notable exception that I'm increasingly encountering is in the digital
asset industry. There are occasions when they'd like to have certain
digital assets in an offline state, for example in technically and
operationally assured systems, encrypted on WORM tape cartridges
physically removed from tape libraries. In some cases that sort of
approach is what the asset owners and their insurers require. Another
potential exception involves certain content management systems, although
it depends on how they're designed.
As another example, IBM SAFR runs really don't mind source data from tape
and/or virtual tape. As long as the data streams fast enough for whatever
you're trying to do with SAFR, that's perfectly fine.
I suppose you could drive even these edge cases through DFSMShsm handling
(and manual tape loading procedures in the first example), but then you'd
need above average cooperation with application developers and owners. The
"my application knows best" philosophy is powerful, for better or worse.
You just try to do the best you can, and if there's an exceptional edge
case and consensus agreement that it ought to be handled differently (even
if you disagree), OK, so it goes.
Well, I agree "NEVER" was strong. However the context is important. This
is "good advice" for someone who needs the advice. So, some
simplification is justified. In many cases people need short answer
instead long lecture.
Regarding your case - I would classify it as archive copy. WORM is very
good solution here. Of course there are no more WORM media, I mean
physical WORM like CD-R (or DVD-R, or UDO). Tape cart WORM is "digital
agreement" between chip inside the cart and the drive. However the media
itself is regular magnetic tape. In theory "hacked" drive could
overwrite it. Why I'm discussing it? Because there are WORM solutions
which are disk arrays. Even IBM offer such solution (DR550). So, for
tape is not the only solution for such data. Obviously disk itself is
not WORM, this is microcode which makes the copy "WORM".
There is another issue to consider. AFAIK solution like DR550 cannot be
attached to FICON, othere vendors also do not offer such attachment. So,
if you don't want to engage another (non-z/OS) system between, WORM tape
seems to be more interesting.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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