What are my options for doing tape backups once I get to CHARON VAX?
Approach 1 – Continue to use existing local tape drives. With CHARON VAX you can connect the older SCSI 1 style devices to the new HP server with the appropriate cable. The tape drive is identified to VMS as the same name as the existing tape drive, MUA0 for example and the existing backup scripts work the same way as before. Approach 2 – Install a new DAT drive and use it as a VMS device With CHARON VAX you can install a new DLTIV or new DAT tape drive in the HP Server and identify it via CHARON VAX as a VMS device, example MUA0, and then use the existing VMS backup strategies you have in place. Approach 3 – Use VMS backup to perform a disk to disk backup, dismount the container files and copy to another backup device such as local backup tape, DVDRW, etc. Salem Automation can create additional container files such that if you have a 3, 4 GB disks on a system, we will create 6, 4 GB container files. 3 of the container files will be empty. You can mount all six devices DUA0, DUA1, DUA2
