[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[gah4]

On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 7:09:28 AM UTC-8, Scott Dorsey wrote:

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> 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. 

Then there was the 3850:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3850