Hi,

From what I understand from IBM UK 3494 Support, there is a relatively
new software mirroring feature that will make a compressed image of the
3494 Library information on the second disk.  It takes about an hour to
install and would save a lot more hours should you lose the primary disk.
We only learnt of this quite recently and are planning to install it at
the next maintenance slot.

I'd be interested to know Simon (if you know) why IBM said not to touch
it as this is contrary to the advice we have been given by IBM in UK?

In our experience it is not just hardware failure that can get you on
the 3494 PC - we did once have the software updated (by engineers) and
it went horribly wrong and we lost 24 hours with the 3494 ... oh well,
all in a days work?

Thanks, Sheelagh
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Sheelagh Treweek                   Email: sheelagh.treweek AT oucs.ox.ac DOT uk
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