No, I haven't done a thing in that regard. For something such as that,
I'd rather have a tool from someone. I'd certainly hate to be 6 months
down the road, having canceled the VM:Backup product, and find out that
there is something that I could not recover. It isn't that I have a
problem or an objection to VM:Backup. I think that it is a great
product, but I started my professional life with IBM, get an IBM
pension, and own IBM stock. I'd certainly like to do my part to keep
the stock price up :-)
Jim
Thomas Kern wrote:
Have you worked on converting the VM:Backup tape dataset format to someth=
ing
homegrown or IBM supported? I think having IBM's backup product know wher=
e
something is can be useful but only if you can actually get the data off =
the
tape.
/Tom Kern
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:41:56 -0500, Jim Bohnsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro=
te:
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I'd like to be able to switch to the IBM products but I wouldn't want to=
keep VM:Backup licensed for the amount of time that the tape retention
cycle on VM:Backup would have tapes that are still current. This is
especially the case since we are in the process of "getting rid of the
mainframe" and have been in that process for over 10 years. What would
be needed to do something like that would be a conversion tool that
could convert the VM:Backup catalog to the IBM format. I mentioned that=
to Tracy Dean a year ago in Seattle at SHARE. I can certainly
understand, however, that CA is not about to permit something like that.=
--
Jim Bohnsack
Cornell University
(607) 255-1760
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