Some questions to consider 1) How much data is currently on tape? 2) Do you encrypt your tape that goes off site? 3) How often do you add new tape to your current environment? 4) How much tape do you create on a daily basis? 5) What are your growth trends in tape? Forecast what your requirements are over time 6) What response time do you need on your tape recalls or recoveries? 7) During DR do you have the same equipment available? 8) Is this your DR site or do you rent time at a DR site? 9) What size tapes do you need for your environment? 10) What size tape do you current use? (10GB, 30GB, 60GB, 100GB, etc)
If the answer to 8 is your DR site, have you considered tapeless solution? Two VTL/VTS libraries that replicate to each other? Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 6:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Choosing a tape library Hi, I was asked to help choose a tape library for our system. We currently have 4 3590’s connected to an 3590-a60 using ESCON. We have a z114-I04 running z/OS 1.13. We use tapes for backing up full volumes disks using DFSMSdss, and for ADABAS backups. These tapes are shipped to the DR site. Tapes are managed using CA-1. Thanks Gadi ________________________________ לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהלי החברה וזכויות החתימה בה, כל הצעה, התחייבות או מצג מטעם החברה, מחייבים מסמך נפרד וחתום על ידי מורשי החתימה של החברה, הנושא את לוגו החברה או שמה המודפס ובצירוף חותמת החברה. בהעדר מסמך כאמור (לרבות מסמך סרוק) המצורף להודעת דואר אלקטרוני זאת, אין לראות באמור בהודעה אלא משום טיוטה לדיון, ואין להסתמך עליה לביצוע פעולה עסקית או משפטית כלשהי. Please note that in accordance with Malam's signatory rights, no offer, agreement, concession or representation is binding on the company, unless accompanied by a duly signed separate document (or a scanned version thereof), affixed with the company's seal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
