Hi John & Donna,
   I like Orbit's tape library product... but I got to ask... (for the sake of
playing devil's advocate... hehehe)

   You do print out logs so someone can figure out which tape to use for
restores when you are recovering from a disasterous crash... don't you?
 Remember you may or may not be there to pick out which tape is to be used for
recovering the system... and restoring the files from the backups....  Things do
happen... :)

   I like to remind people to think about the "worst case scenario" where the
knowledge walking around in people's heads is no longer available .... for
whatever reason... for me it is because I can be deployed on a very short notice
to areas that are... um shall we say overseas?  and of course, there is always
the proverbial "Bus" that my college prof used to teach us to always be ready
for..... :) hehehe

Art "Just a thot to ponder :) " Bahrs

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>Subject: Re: tape library software
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr, 1999, 14:05
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> Donna Garverick <[log in to unmask]> on 4/28/99 wrote:
>
>> anyone using this kind of software from 3rd-party -- with
>> the exception of tape plus from tivoli?         - d
>
> Absolutely Donna,
>
> For over the past five years I have been using the TML (Tape Management
Library)
> option of Orbit's Backup+ product.  The TML stores several bits of information
> about each file that is on a particular tape, the total number of sectors on a
> tape, the number of files on the tape, etc.  All of this information is
> retrievable through the TML "query" facility.
>
> Right now I have over 1100 tapes of various types (Round, DAT and DLT)
> catalogued in the system.  On these tapes are over 500,000 files that are also
> catalogued in the TML by tape number, date of store and modification date.
But
> even after all those years of use the TML database (Image/SQL of course)
> consumes less than 200MB of disk space.
>
> No plug needed, just a happy customer!  Check it out, you may just like it.
>
> John Hornberger
> Sr. Systems Programmer
> General Signal Services (A subsidiary of SPX corp.)
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