Re: Restore entire 7.5 system from a SAV21 tape

as there is a freeware option which works with IBM (starting with 6.1) the argument "accept lower price with caveats"
is only suitable for people with weird reasons ;-)

Best regards,
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Holger Scherer

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Am 06.09.2023 um 18:35; schrieb Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>:

Patrik,
Neither would I but their price is significantly lower than many libraries
and VTLs. It was enough that one local company I know had one for their
system before moving to a cloud provider. Apparently you were expected to
do the bare metal stuff to a regular tape drive.

On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 10:01 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Rob,

Am 06.09.2023 um 13:27 schrieb Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>:

- A few rare third party VTL's are incompatible with IBM's (and BRMS)
save/restore commands. They use their own software to do saves. Those
devices are not compatible with IPL from tape.

No way I ever would buy something like that.

:wq! PoC



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