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Bill Woodger
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| If some jobs at your site are using UNIT=TAPE then there may be nothing to stop you also doing that. It is a good medium for backup. Saves a lot of DASD. Why don't you talk to your Production Control/Storage Management people and explain what you have, and then you'll get to do it the way they want you to do it, which is something we can't possibly know. |
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dick scherrer
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| Can I write to a tape instead of DASD? |
You need to talk with your storage management people. Different organizations have different rules about which media is acceptable for different usage.
Several places i support have decided to create these "one off" backups on dasd and allow them to migrate quickly to be recalled if/when needed.
Others have gone to "virtual tape" which acts like tape/cart and is managed by the Tape Management software but is actually dasd. Again, your storage management people will know how to meet your requirement following "the rules".
If the programmers are to be able to restore and use this data, you will need a companion process to make the backed up data available. For example if you use adrdssu for the backup, they cannot use sort for the restore. |
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