Re: Is anyone doing VM/Archive disaster recovery?

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From: Ken Koester
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 20:20

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On Tue, 24 Nov 1992 18:54:53 GMT Mark A. Stevens said:
>. . . .  We are forever closing a
>tape set because of I/O errors caused by a bad tape or flaky drive.  Then
>you have to have the copies around just to be sure they match, sort of,
>since VMARCHIVE twins are not exact copies any more than VMBACKUP twins
>are exact copies.
>
Not sure I understand the above.  Are you referring to separate reel-to-reel
devices with possibly different head alignments (so that a tape can only be
read on the drive that wrote to it)?

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