Then an LTO with a used tape library is your only option. There is no
internal tape in P8 nor do we expect one for P9.
If you can justify it, go with 8GB Fibre (a bit higher acquisition cost)
but now capable of the NPIV virtualization and other goodies on your shiny
new system.
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim
Hawkins
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 12:13 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Backup media
Since that system is slated for end of hardware support in early 2019, and
cannot be upgraded to OS V7.3, I would want to find a tape drive that would
be compatible with both this box and my shiny new Power 9 box I hope to get
next year (Santa are you listening?) . Otherwise you are going to invoke
the spend money command for a tape drive now, and again for a tape drive in
the next few months. Now, does such a drive exist? I don't know, but that
would be high on my criteria.
from: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Backup media
With a worn out DAT160 backup tape on our production box, I went looking for
replacement media.
And I discovered that DAT160 is considered an obsolete format, with
availability limited to stock on hand.
Given that we have a rack-mountable E4A, with a DAT160 drive for backup, can
anybody suggest any long-term options?
--
JHHL
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