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On Wed, 19 Aug 1992 09:50:27 EDT Stan Horwitz said:
>Hello; I  am a mainframe applications  software consultant here at  Temple U.
>My boss  and I have been  trying to talk  our VM systems people  into putting
>VMArchive  into general  production for  the past  couple of  years and  they
>always come back  to us with lame excuses  as to why they won't  do it. After
>quite some  time, we  were able to  have VMArchive put  into production  in a
>minimal way. If our systems folks  had their way, they would remove VMArchive
>from our 3084-Q entirely.  As it is, files are moved  between the staging are
>and tape only twice a day; at 8:00  and 13:00. We want to increase this to at
>least  once  an hour.  We  also  want to  allow  users  to archive  files  on
>temporary disk  which is  currently not  possible here.  I am  wondering what
>your  experiences with  VMArchive are.  How many  people on  your system  use
>VMArchive  and how  did you  set it  up?  If this  is a  FAQ, please  respond
>personally. It would also  be nice to chat with folks at  other VM sites that
>use VMArchive in  the event our systems folks have  further arguments against
>this idea. It would probably make more  sense for one of our systems analysts
>to send a posting  on this matter to L-VMCTR, but I guess  they don't do such
>things since it is not in their contract.
>
VMArchive is a good tool for users to manage their own backup environment.
The problem is getting or educating the users about the tool and getting
them the user to use VMArchive more.   There are several options as to
where the archive will reside.  Also, how long it will reside in a certain
location before the archive is either purged or moved to another location
or media.  So, do what you have to do politically and good luck.