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There seems to be less trust of tape in the Intel/PC world than in the larger systems world. Perhaps that distrust is a carry over from the lower end tape drives that have traditionally been used with PCs. The idea of using disk drives as backup seems to fall apart when you get into archiving data and using multi-generational backups, such as the familiar daily/weekly tape sets the larger systems use. It's also difficult to get management to spend as much or more than a new server for a tape backup system. Steve Steven Morrison Fidelity Express 903-885-1283 ext. 479 "Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 03/20/2007 01:16 PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject RE: newer backup methods was: Accidentally Lost Data V-tape: If you used virtual tape for your saves, you'd need to move them to a network drive somewhere. If you want to use them to recover the iSeries it's kinda useless if they're still on the iSeries needing recovery. So you need another server (SAN/NAS count as 'servers') and the associated expense. If you go to the expense to build that infrastructure, I'd suspect the restore process would be similar to what happens for Windows today: Load the base OS from media, configure the connection to the network share, copy the data over and restore from that or restore directly 'over the wire'. Effort-wise it's probably not too bad but I'd hazard a guess a D IPL is simpler. Vista: A USB drive is a USB drive. Why should it matter at all if the drive is solid state or platter-based? Either way you can partition them, format as FAT32 or NTFS, and do whatever else you'd care to do. 16GB Flash drives are out and are under $150 ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233042 ). That's plenty for a modest OS + apps + My Documents set up. Or just My Docs for incremental/differential backups. I'm not trying to argue here; you may well be right about MS' approach. IMO, though, there's no functional difference and MS shouldn't be dictating what storage media customers use.
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