RE: Anybody ever had backup tapes converted to CD/DVD?

Well....one of the things I do with my stuff here in my not so little lab
is to do a savlib to *savf, then do a binary ftp to my windows server
where I have 250GIG mirror that cost me less than $400 - INSTALLED...
then, I do a disk to disk backup from there, rotating removeable 250GIG
removeable disk drives ($180 EACH) and all this is done over a gig
ethernet...

Now, that's not gonna work for many companies, but for alot, it will work
just fine.....:)

No, you still need a good backup savsys, etc, to boot from and restore
from, etc., for dev, secdta, yoda yoda yoda...but for data and pgm libs,
gee, it's nice....:)

Don in DC

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Who's the vendor?
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> Paul Nelson
> Arbor Solutions, Inc.
> 708-670-6978  Cell
> pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
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> "Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Just a following up for the archives if nothing else.
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> The vendor we're working with just demoed a CD created from an old reel
> backup tape.
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> DSPOPT DATA(*SAVRST)
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> shows the objects saved to tape just fine.  A trial restore of one of the
> objects (saved in 1993 using v2r1) worked fine!!!
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> Sweet!
>
> Charles Wilt
> iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> ph: 513-573-4343
> fax: 513-398-1121
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:55 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (E-mail)
> > Subject: Anybody ever had backup tapes converted to CD/DVD?
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> > All,
> >
> > We're looking at having old backup tapes (reel-to-reel and
> > 8mm) converted from tape to CD/DVD.
> >
> > Objects from the 400 were saved to the tapes using the SAVOBJ.
> >
> > The local conversion shop we're working with sent us a test
> > CD that doesn't seem to be in the right format.
> >
> > Looking at some info online, it doesn't seem to be as simple
> > as copying byte by byte from tape to CD.  In particular, the
> > requirement to use the qlpHandleCdState and
> > qlpGenCdPremasteringInfo APIs prior to doing a backup.
> >
> > Does this mean that you can't convert an old tape?
> >
> > We'd like to work with this local vendor, but if anybody has
> > contact info for vendors who can handle this request, that
> > would be fine also.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Charles Wilt
> > iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> > Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> > ph: 513-573-4343
> > fax: 513-398-1121
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