[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/14/22 8:51 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-13, <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> One biggie for tape is that current LTO tape solutions will do a write, then
>> read-back for every write. Disks just do a write, unless you do a
>> backup/verify type operation.
>>
> 
> That only guarantees that the data, as presented to the tape drive, is
> what was actually written to the tape.
> 
> It does nothing for a failing controller delivering the wrong data to
> the tape drive or for a faulty backup program delivering the wrong data
> to the controller.
> 
> IMHO, you still need a full verify pass by the backup program.
> 

COOP!!

40 years ago before any of this OOP or Agile crap took over
the IT world I worked doing COBOL in a Univac 1100 environment,
Once a month we used to pack up a backup set and travel to Rome
AFB which was our designated COOP site.  We would take over one
of their 1100's for the morning and do a complete restoration
of the OS and all our data from the backup tape. Does anyone
still do this?  Does anyone here even know what COOP means
(without Googling it!!)

bill