Re: Mainframe physical tape backup Still ?

2025-04-25 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 24.04.2025 o 06:17, Peter pisze: Hello Apart from IBM, Are there any vendors who still have physical tape backup solution. I know Oracle withdrew it's physical tape solution last year. Hitachi doesn't have physical tape backup solution for mainframe. Does anyone know if fujitsu still ha

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup Still ?

2025-04-24 Thread Michael W. Moss
I think the challenge you will face, whatever route you choose, the word support will apply. Pretty much all physical 3n90 type drives are EOL or EOSL & even with the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS CS8000 VTL, what tape drives & libraries you can attach might be encompassed by the aforementioned EOL or

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup Still ?

2025-04-24 Thread Timothy Sipples
Peter asks: >Apart from IBM, Are there any vendors who still have physical tape backup >solution. I assume you're asking about z/OS. Visara advertises real physical tape support as an option for their Vi-5990A and Vi-5990L virtual tape libraries. mainstorconcept GmbH advertises that their z/RTD

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-02-01 Thread CARL SWANSON
You are correct in both cases VTE = Virtual Tape Engine And back end tape no longer supported but when it was it was Fiber Channel LTO only As far as I know the hardware and code is still in each VTE One thing to note I have been retired from the Dell EMC DLM group for the past 2 years Carl Swan

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-02-01 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Auto correction: VTE could mean Virtual Tape Engine. However it does not support LTO at backend. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 02.02.2025 o 01:29, Radoslaw Skorupka pisze: What is DLM VTE? I know Dell/EMC DLm, former Bustech. I don't know VTE. And I heard from EMC guys they do no

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-02-01 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
or you and I hope you can continue to use it. Carl Swanson carl.swans...@verizon.net Mobile: 215.688.1459 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2025 2:03 AM To:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-02-01 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 2:14 AM To:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe physical tape backup We are looking for on premises and ejectable tape solution On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 11:23 Tomer Zelberzvig, <059ecf7fe8fe-dm

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-02-01 Thread CARL SWANSON
gt; >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf >> Of Peter >> Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2025 2:03 AM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: Mainframe physical tape backup >> >> Just in my case attach DLM

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-02-01 Thread Peter
r > Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2025 2:03 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe physical tape backup > > Just in my case attach DLM VTE to physical tape and send as generic backup > to any LTO drives > > On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, 05:03 Russell Witt, < > 000

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-02-01 Thread carl swanson
Peter Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2025 2:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe physical tape backup Just in my case attach DLM VTE to physical tape and send as generic backup to any LTO drives On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, 05:03 Russell Witt, < 025adb32e6d7-dmarc-r

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-31 Thread Peter
per > Broadcom > russell.w...@broadcom.com > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Peter > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 2:14 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe physi

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-31 Thread Russell Witt
physical tape backup We are looking for on premises and ejectable tape solution On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 11:23 Tomer Zelberzvig, < 059ecf7fe8fe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hello Peter, > > I'm not sure about your exact use case, but you can use BMC AMI Cloud > w

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-27 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcm7-KvytI 6 carbon fiber bicycle parts that wear out quickly or fail catastrophically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcm7-KvytI On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM kekronbekron < 02dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Apologies, I didn't mean tha

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-27 Thread kekronbekron
Apologies, I didn't mean that as a jab. Brought it up because everything they do needs to be Carbon these days (I'm guessing). And to be honest, when done right, it looks *great*... Like https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/mq-running-ibm-mq-apps-on-quarkus-and-graalvm-using-qpid-amqp-jms-classes

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-27 Thread carl swanson
MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Assunto: Re: Mainframe physical tape backup Hello Carlos Right we use DLM8500 and Data Domain to backup the mainframe data. Is it possible to send mainframe data to LT0 drives from Dell backup solutions? Has anyone tried or you have working solutions already? On Fri, 24 J

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-27 Thread Peter
We are looking for on premises and ejectable tape solution On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 11:23 Tomer Zelberzvig, < 059ecf7fe8fe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hello Peter, > > I'm not sure about your exact use case, but you can use BMC AMI Cloud with > our Cloud Data Sets feature to send your

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-26 Thread Tomer Zelberzvig
Hello Peter, I'm not sure about your exact use case, but you can use BMC AMI Cloud with our Cloud Data Sets feature to send your tape data directly to cloud object storage. If you choose the public cloud option, then the storage is already external to your site and should meet whatever you're lo

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-26 Thread Timothy Sipples
Peter wrote: >Are these available as ejectable tape ? Yes, you can eject tape cartridges from the IBM TS4500 and TS4300 tape libraries then move those tape cartridges wherever you want. Here's the information for the TS4500, for example: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ts4500-tape-library?topi

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-26 Thread Peter
Hello Carlos Right we use DLM8500 and Data Domain to backup the mainframe data. Is it possible to send mainframe data to LT0 drives from Dell backup solutions? Has anyone tried or you have working solutions already? On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, 22:23 Bodra - Pessoal, < 02eda2bc565a-dmarc-requ...@li

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-26 Thread Peter
Hello Tim, Are these available as ejectable tape ? On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 03:39 Timothy Sipples, wrote: > There’s some incorrect (or at least out of date) information in this > thread. (I’ll try again!) > > The IBM TS7700 also supports the IBM TS4300 tape library via Feature Code > 5995 (previ

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-26 Thread Tom Brennan
"even with the Carbon design" LOL On 1/26/2025 7:26 PM, kekronbekron wrote: Once again, TechDocs is gold. Why can't IBM make a simple page of these docs with metadata about them (date created/modified). Make it as flashy as you want, but a simple table isn't hard to create, even with the Carb

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-26 Thread kekronbekron
Once again, TechDocs is gold. Why can't IBM make a simple page of these docs with metadata about them (date created/modified). Make it as flashy as you want, but a simple table isn't hard to create, even with the Carbon design? Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Monday, January 27th, 202

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-26 Thread Timothy Sipples
Brian Westerman wrote: >….The advent of VTS systems made all of those problems ( which are >real and happen all the time), dissolve, and you would be creating >them all over again. Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >Now the advantage, which can be considered HUGE: tapes can be moved. >Easily moved. Single

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-26 Thread Timothy Sipples
There’s some incorrect (or at least out of date) information in this thread. (I’ll try again!) The IBM TS7700 also supports the IBM TS4300 tape library via Feature Code 5995 (previously via RPQ). Both are available for rack mounted installation. Please refer to this whitepaper for details: htt

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-25 Thread Brian Westerman
I disagree, physical tape generation is not efficient (cost-wise or in reality man-power wise). You can Rsync most VTS boxes, and most also have built in DR recovery options to allow offloading copies of the data. There are fairly inexpensive VTS's (like a z/VT from Optica) which allows you

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-25 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 25.01.2025 o 07:19, Brian Westerman pisze: You could have you network attached storage located anywhere you want. No. TVC aka disk cache in VTS (most vendors) cannot be any storage you choose. Obviously you have not thought this through. Moving physical tapes costs money and puts

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-24 Thread Brian Westerman
You could have you network attached storage located anywhere you want. Obviously you have not thought this through. Moving physical tapes costs money and puts those tapes in danger every time they are touched. They can be dropped, stolen, get wet, etc. The advent of VTS systems made all o

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-24 Thread Brian Westerman
a "better" solution would be to have your virtual tape controller drive (where your virtual tapes are kept) copied to another DASD (preferably a raid based system). Trying to re-introduce physical tape into your site would be undoing many years of purposeful movement away from the many, many MA

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-24 Thread Peter
Hello Steve Yes I am looking for a full solution including physical drive and controllers. We have virtual tape solution but in parallel would like to send copies to physical tapes On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, 19:47 Steve Beaver, < 050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Are you look

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-24 Thread Peter
Hello To be precise we need a solution where we can eject the tape on a monthly basis and move it to vault. On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, 21:21 Peter, wrote: > Hello Steve > > Yes I am looking for a full solution including physical drive and > controllers. > > We have virtual tape solution but in parall

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-24 Thread Seymour J Metz
of Pommier, Rex <0737643a508d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2025 12:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Mainframe physical tape backup External Message: Use Caution I would take chat GPT with a huge block of salt. Sure, the S

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-24 Thread Pommier, Rex
24, 2025 9:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Mainframe physical tape backup Chat GPT says in answer to: On the IBM mainframe operating system z/os customers use physical tape to backup their systems. What vendors manufacture physical tape systems and media today Is:

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-24 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 24.01.2025 o 16:41, Peter pisze: Hello My organization has asked me to explore about the vendors who are still providing external physical tape backup. How many companies are there who are making physical tape Solutions and I would like to discuss with them. Any pointers would be apprec

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-24 Thread Steve Beaver
physical tape backup Are you looking for Physical Drives and controllers ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Friday, January 24, 2025 9:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe physical tape backup

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-24 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Chat GPT says in answer to: On the IBM mainframe operating system z/os customers use physical tape to backup their systems. What vendors manufacture physical tape systems and media today Is: = As of today, several vendors manufacture physical tape systems and media for IBM m

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

2025-01-24 Thread Steve Beaver
Are you looking for Physical Drives and controllers ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Friday, January 24, 2025 9:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe physical tape backup Hello My organi