[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4f8f1fd8$0$1587$c3e8da3$aae71a0a at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> As I am moving away from reliable VMS, I have to ask myself whether the
> above is something that is typical of non VMS systems (aka: i need to
> worry about this) or whether this is just the result of an inexperienced
> system manager.

   Looks like the result of people who didn't know what they were doing
   buying the wrong products, using them incorrectly, or both.

   I know a shop that was using an MS product for disk shadowing.  When
   one disk failed they lost everything.  It took days to recover.

   I don't know which product nor what the current reputation of the product 
   is, but I do know the folks in charge made an "unquestionable" management 
   decision to go to an all-MS shop.  They really had the UNIX lovers worried 
   (moving off HP-UX) when they then decided that UNIX backups would be stored
   on the "repaired" MS product.

   Back when DEC was still digital, I was using an HP RAID array on HP-UX, 
   set up RAID-5, only to lose everything every few months when one of the 
   "inexpensive disks" went out.  HP took the product off the market.