Re: Full Save/Long Term Storage/Having Readily Available Hardware

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The recover report is not essential.

So long as you have the tape you can follow instructions in the 
Backup/Recovery guide to rebuild a system.

You do need to know the QSECOFR password.

Jerry

On 9/30/2021 6:04 AM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote:
> Bet you do.
>
> Remember you are recovering the entire system. Someone needs to have 
> that report handy and if it's been a long time that's another thing to 
> keep. And where DO you keep it? With the tape of course. Which is in a 
> VTL so do you stuff it behind the front cover?
>
> And someone cleaning up the VTL at some point can easily delete the tape 
> because it hasn't been used in years and since you can't put comments on 
> tapes in a VTL you gotta remember somehow.
>
> Contrast with LTO tape. You can box it, label it, write on the label and 
> the box and put it in the vault. Or on a shelf. Or both. Or three places.
>
> I am thinking of the many shops i work with and turnover and location 
> changes and new VTLs and and and.  I think the tape has a better chance 
> sitting ther with labels and the recovery report.
>
> IN any case, Knowledge is needed for sure.
>
>
>
> On 9/30/2021 8:54 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> > It's BRMS, you do not need to know the name of the tape in the DD (nor 
> > any physical tape either).
> >
> > Rob Berendt