[Info-vax] Direct FC connection between IA64/OpenVMS and HP 1/8 Tape Loader with LTO-5?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-02-25, richard.l.dyson at gmail.com <richard.l.dyson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This new site wants me to use their Linux-based storage, maybe CIFS/SMB or NFS
> but I'm not comfortable with that for backups.  I guess I will never be able to restore directly from the backup device since I will have to have a working VMS in order to access the remote backup save-sets...
>

I recommend you do a verify pass as well (which you should do anyway;
after all, an unverified backup is a useless backup IMHO).

> But I guess it will be OK for user/data disks.
>

Just make sure that whatever plans you have for storing the RMS metadata
as well actually work. :-)

Simon.

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