Alan,
When will companiies learn that without their data, they have no business.
Delaying required hardware upgrades may look a good saving, but often have
hidden and in your case not so hidden extra costs
regards,
John




Alan Davenport <alan.davenport AT selective DOT com> on 03/20/2002 02:28:58 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu>

To:   adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu
cc:    (bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE)
Subject:  Re: Read-Only tapes.



It is BOTH the drives and the tapes. Some of the tapes are over 10 years
old, if not more, and are still in service. My company is (finally) looking
to get new tape technology. The reason I asked the question was to make sure
that audit did in fact read the tapes. I believed that it did but wanted to
make sure. Quite often the tapes are not at fault and I do not want to ditch
them unnecessarily. The drives themselves are showing their age. I cannot
wait until we get away from 3490's. I have 11,985 tapes in use on a 18.7GB
database that is 87% utilized. Those 3490's just don't hold enough data for
a modern shop. Some of our larger servers have their data on HUNDREDS of
co-located tapes. Can you imagine the restore time for that server?

         Take care,
            Al

Alan Davenport
Senior Storage Administrator
Selective Insurance
alan.davenport AT selectvie DOT com
(973) 948-1306