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- From: xmas@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Mark A. Stevens)
- Subject: Re: VMArchive
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.142944.782@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Organization: Educational Computing Network
- References: <L-VMCTR%92081910040303@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:29:44 GMT
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- In article <L-VMCTR%92081910040303@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> STAN@VM.TEMPLE.EDU (Stan Horwitz) writes:
- >Hello; I am a mainframe applications software consultant here at Temple U.
- >My boss and I have been trying to talk our VM systems people into putting
- >VMArchive into general production for the past couple of years and they
- >always come back to us with lame excuses as to why they won't do it. After
-
- Shame on them. Excuses should never be lame, they should be able to
- run on their own ;->
-
- It's not great, but it does work, VMArchive, that is.
-
- >quite some time, we were able to have VMArchive put into production in a
- >minimal way. If our systems folks had their way, they would remove VMArchive
- >from our 3084-Q entirely. As it is, files are moved between the staging are
- >and tape only twice a day; at 8:00 and 13:00. We want to increase this to at
- >least once an hour. We also want to allow users to archive files on
-
- We had scheduled disk to tape runs twice per day, also. We are down to
- one for the moment, but that doesn't have anything to do with
- VMARCHIVE. Recalls are processed every 5 minutes. We have three
- mdisks for users to archive files to with a one day retention period.
- I need to add more disk space because more people are using it.
-
- >temporary disk which is currently not possible here. I am wondering what
- >your experiences with VMArchive are. How many people on your system use
- >VMArchive and how did you set it up? If this is a FAQ, please respond
-
- See above for setup, if you want more detail, send me a note. We have
- about 100 userids with files on the VMARCHIVE tapes, most are VMCenter
- userids and files.
-
- >personally. It would also be nice to chat with folks at other VM sites that
- >use VMArchive in the event our systems folks have further arguments against
- >this idea. It would probably make more sense for one of our systems analysts
- >to send a posting on this matter to L-VMCTR, but I guess they don't do such
- >things since it is not in their contract.
-
- Mine says, "other duties as assigned." Maybe they don't have that
- clause? ;-)
-
- >Thanks in advance.
-
- Ihth
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