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Tape Assist eliminates tape copying at disaster recovery time, and gets you back online faster.
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Your DR response team is at the hotsite, already tense and soon to be stressed, tired and even a little sloppy.
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All the tapes are there to begin the DASD restore and it's also the time to begin tape copying. You have a list and the control language and thousands of tapes to copy back to their original dataset names and volsers before you can go live.
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Are you having fun yet?
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What a colossal waste of time. The data on the backup tape is the same as the original tape. Only the volume header and tape label is different.
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If you were using DR/VFI with Tape-Assist none of this would be happening.
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DR/VFI reduces tape copying operations to their bare essentials.
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DR/VFI tells you which tapes are critical to critical applications.
That's maybe 10% of your total tape copying volume.
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Tape-Assist supplies a single job to convert your tape copies to "originals",
by working with the system and user catalogs,
so no precious DR time is needed for tape copying.
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So the choice is fairly simple -- copying thousands of tapes
and keeping the critical applications (and the company) waiting for hours,
if not days, while you do so --
or copying no tape at all.
Run a simple setup job and then start the applications without a hitch or hiccup.
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DR/VFI identifies critical tapes.
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Tape-Assist eliminates the need for copying any tape at all, by modifying the
system and/or user catalogs.
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So which makes more sense to you? A long, expensive and painful tape
copying operation for an exhausted disaster recovery staff to perform at a
critical moment -- or a simple tape catalog modification job?
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The life of your company might be at stake, not to mention your job.
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Seems like a simple choice to us.
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Tape Copying
