RE: Cranky LTO tape drive

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Until you have a dead machine and only one way to get it going again........
Tape images be they real tape or virtual are needed somewhere. 

The machine is more than RDi.  

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth
Martin
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 8:49 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Cranky LTO tape drive

That, to me, is the real advantage of RDi.  Both your PC and your iSeries
are always current and are the back up for each other. The likelihood of
losing both at the same time are quite remote. But if that is a concern, add
svn to your set-up and you are pretty much guaranteed instant recovery
without the hardware hassles.  The bigger plus is that suddenly you are set
up for team development.

in my opinion, the days of tape are, blessedly, gone the way of the quill
pen, the cloth diaper, and the cathode ray tube.


On 12/28/2016 5:10 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:
> In a pinch....but if something catastrophic happens I'd like to be 
> able to restore to the most recent backup, even if it is a year old.  
> I DO save the system before CUME's and OS version jumps, JUST in case.
>
> I need a drive to save to, even if the data isn't important, being 
> able to get back on my feet is still important.
>
> Pete Helgren
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