If the robot is broken and you would really badly need a restore you
could always load the tapes by hand right?

Otto Schakenbos
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Richard Rhodes wrote:

Do you have the HA1 high availability option on your 3494 or 3584 library?

If you have HA1, do you think it was worth the money?
How often has your robot failed?

We have a couple 3494 libraries with the HA1 option.  In 3-4 years of
service
the spare robot only was needed a couple times.    As we think about
getting
another library we're asking ourselves if it's worth the price and floor
space.
At first we said it wasn't worth it  . . . .but, it's insurance.  What
would the consequences
have been for the couple times we've used it and if it wasn't available?
The
obvious operations in TSM would fail - this is bad, but not a disaster.  No
production
system is down because of this.  The worse thing would probably be
restores, if any were needed, would fail.

Interested in your thoughts . . . . .

Rick


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