Re: Multiple backups on single tape?

["Brian Lewis" <brianl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:18 AM
Subject: RE: Multiple backups on single tape?


> In a way, this makes sense.  The main purpose of either of these saves
> is to recover a system, often at power up without operator intervention
> which would allow the specification of a file sequence number.  When
> powering back up from a crash, you have a tape with three SAVSYS's on it
> and need to reload your system.  What do you do?  How could you tell the
> system to use the middle one?

What I'm about to say isn't useful, but I still feel like saying it.
Norton's Ghost for PCs essentially does SAVSTG -- it creates compressed
images of an entire disk or disk system.  It's possibly to save any number
of these images to a spare hard disk, provided that it has space, and
restore from any one of them in the case of a catastrophic failure.  IBM,
please wake up.

Thanks for the info, though!  I'll work something out to make effective use
of the tapes I have.
brian.