How old must a technology be to be classified as mature ?
Magneto-Optical is a ten year-old, high-performance re-writable
technology using cartridge-based media for secure export, handling,
and long-term offline archiving !
It is no more proprietary than most tape technologies!
Unfortunately,
(old) tapes.
IMHO this device class is good to be used for backupsets and maybe DB
backups.
Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant
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Hello All,
I have been given the task of evaluating whether or not TSM is the
appropriate vehicle for long term archiving. As part of this process I
plan on installing the latest version of TSM on Solaris 8. I am
interested in which type of optical drive you may be using. I will not be
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Hello All,
I have been given the task of evaluating whether or not TSM is the
appropriate vehicle for long term archiving. As part of this process I
plan on installing
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Any data you write with TSM requires BOTH a TSM server and a TSM client to
recover
Vint,
I just looked at this question myself, and it seems to me that optical devices are not
yet mature enough. For my application, which has relatively small amounts of data,
tape with a second copy and appropriate refreshing of old tapes will be cheap and
convenirnt. It also provides
