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LTO (fibre) boot support missing: Rationale

  • 1.  LTO (fibre) boot support missing: Rationale

    Posted Mon July 09, 2007 05:40 AM

    Originally posted by: bdh002


    At this time LTO (fibre)is not supported for boot.

    What is the Rationale to have a bootable LTO (fibre)?

    System and data backups are related. It is quite difficult to assure that datavg(s) backup could run with a system backup of another date. So for disaster recovery purposes both must be present. A bootable device must be found/made that has a the same level to restore the tape (when not bootable), adding another level of complexity.

    There is also another environment where it is missing and where it is maybe even more compelling, the WORM tapes of LTO. If a WORM is used for archiving, mksys
    b and datavg's will be on the set(s). This set is self-consistent and kept for a long time. But it is not bootable so it fundamentally brakes the archive principle. It is not self-containing.

    Bernard (Dhooghe)
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