[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Scott Dorsey]

Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>And all these Cloud geniuses know how to do a backup and restore on
>VMS?  And we won't even get into how you get them to store the backups 
>in a different location.

That's the beauty of virtualization.  You can just snapshot the disks,
you don't need access to the computer or operating system at all.  It
doesn't matter what OS is running, from the standpoint of the backup
system, it's all just data.

IBM was able to do this back in the seventies; you could do direct backups
from disk to tape using just the channel controllers with the CPU shut off.
But now it's pretty much universal.

You don't need to know -anything- about the customer's system, you just
need to be able to snapshot and replicate it as needed.
--scott
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