[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/6/2022 10:09 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

For some things like a database backup I would want something
application aware to ensure that the backup is usable from
an application perspective.

Arne