Re: recommend tape conversion services

That brings up an interesting point-- how old is the data, and what is
your company's Data Retention Plan?

We had a large number of older tapes without a matching tape drive, and,
once Legal gave us the go-ahead, we filled a large pallet box with tapes
heading for the shredder.

For any tapes we have to keep that we no longer have tape drives for, we
scrounge for an outside service as needed. We hope that they will never be
needed!

You're in decent shape with *NONSYS saves-- you have the programs that can
understand the data!

Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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Steinmetz, Paul
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 1:57 PM
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Subject: RE: recommend tape conversion services

Gerald,

I was in the same boat.
We trashed all the 8mm, they were all from 80's and 90's.

Some other points I forgot to mention.
Our goal was to consolidate all media to current media, and have all
volumes filled to the max.

1)performance numbers.

DUPTAP of a full LTO5 to LTO5 volume previously was 10 hours.
DUPTAP of a full LTO5 to LTO7 volume is 4 hours 45 minutes.
DUPTAP of a full LTO7 to LTO7 volume is 18 hours.

2) When setting up the dup job, we used the input volume list to combine
multiple input volumes to one new volume.

3) If the destination volume was not full, we Appended to an existing
volume by specifying *END for the TOSEQNMR.

Paul




-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Gerald Magnuson
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 12:25 PM
To: Midrange List
Subject: Re: recommend tape conversion services

I only currently have LTO5 hardware...

I suppose I could do this myself.. taking the LTO3 to LTO5 right now... and
go from LTO5 to LTO7 after upgrade....
Is there any way a 8mm drive could attach to a 8202-E4D, or a 9009-41A??


On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:47 AM Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Gerald,

Using a combination of DUPTAP and DUPMEDBRM.
I did a similar process years back in 2012.
Converted all 3590 B and H and LTO3 to LTO5.
I had 8mm that I could not convert, no tape hardware.

Did it again in 2015.
Converted all LTO5 to LTO7.

Do you still have all various tape hardware connected?

Paul

-----Original Message-----
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Gerald Magnuson
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 10:47 AM
To: Midrange List
Subject: recommend tape conversion services

I need to convert about 37 tapes of various types and ages to LTO7.
(8mm (13), LTO3(15), LTO5(9))...
15 tapes are full system saves,
11 are *NONSYS,
11 are 2 small library saves,
so to condense the 37 down to a reasonable number could be done if

allowed

to only migrate the *NONSYS libraries...

can you recommend some vendors?
about how much should I expect this to cost?
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