[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jmp8pu$gpt$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> Paul Sture wrote:
[...]
>> 
>> Oh, the guy didn't have any tape backups because he "didn't trust tape 
>> backups".
>> 
> 
> It's hard to trust something you didn't do ....

   I've been amazed at how many programmers don't understand tapes,
   don't trust tapes, don't use tapes, don't know how to use tapes, ...

   And if I didn't have a product with the built-in cross checking and
   redundancy of VMS BACKUP, I wouldn't trust them either.

   Meanwhile, all kinds of folks trust disk resident backups.  I saw a
   very convincing demonstration from a backup vendor once at a DC
   VMSLUG meeting:

   The speaker brushed a tape casset off the top off the podium.  After
   it banged on the floor, he claimed that he might have to replace the
   case, but he had a lot of confidence that he could read the tape.
   Imagine if a disk experienced that fall.