[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Grant Taylor]

On 3/6/22 8:20 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> For some things like a database backup I would want something 
> application aware to ensure that the backup is usable from an 
> application perspective.

Yep.

You almost always need something to quiesce the data for the duration of 
the backup, be that a fast snapshot, or a slow write to tape.

Data changing during the middle of a backup may be worse than data after 
a crash / EPO.  At least the latter is a point in time.  While the 
former may be self corrupted.



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Grant. . . .
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