> Cheap makes me cringe a bit.
We're a customer (of SafeSFS and SafeAccess, not SafeDR) -- making vendors "cringe a bit" is part of our job description!
> For that, you get the best disaster recovery automation available.
Well... I guess one way to respond to a claim like that on this (flameless) listserve is:
"We now return you to your regular programming." :-)
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.
"JohnHall (at) SafeSoftware.Com" wrote on 03/28/2006 01:17:27 PM:
> (Native) DDR does the following for tape prompts:
> Unloads the current tape volume
> Issues prompt message to local console
> Issues a REWIND.
>
> The REWIND is an elegant way of waiting (in that it works the same
> under CMS on or real/virtual hardware), w/o having to create a wait
> mechanism. When the next tape volume is mounted, DDR automatically
> "wakes up" from the REWIND.
>
> Regarding SafeDR, our z/VM Backup/Restore and Disaster Recovery
> solution, we provide several modifications to your DDR module that
> changes its behavior so that we can handle tape mounts, stack
> multiple dumps on a tape, span tapes, and support labeled tapes.
>
> I'd prefer to describe our pricing as "reasonable". Cheap makes me
> cringe a bit. But if it makes it more attractive to you..then cheap
> it is! The reality is that it's about 3 days pay. Tough to match
> that if you're creating and (more important) maintaining your own solution.
>
> For that, you get the best disaster recovery automation available.
> We completely automate standalone recovery so that even my 9-month-
> old daughter could implement disaster recovery for your zVM system.
> You also get minidisk and volume backups, tape drive/volume
> management, multiple streams, and quiesce automation. (And more!)
>
> John
>
> --
> John Hall (+1) 727-397-6373 Safe Software, Inc.
> JohnHall (at) SafeSoftware.Com http://www.SafeSoftware.Com
>
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