The drawback to this is you are limited to one machine per tape drive at   a 
time,  with disk you can have multiple machines backing up   simultaneously.
   
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From:  ADSM: Dist Stor Manager[SMTP:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]
Sent:  Tuesday, March 25, 1997 10:51 AM
To:  ADSM-L
Subject:  Re: tape storage vs. disk storage

     Yes, this can be done and this is how we do backups.


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Subject: tape storage vs. disk storage
Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> at ~internet
Date:    3/25/97 12:59 PM


        Does anyone out there just dump to tape only and not store data   on
disk(ex.3390,3380)? Can this be done?



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