Re: REPOST: RMAN question

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:13:34 -0700
Message-ID: <1093929270.419492@yasure>

Howard J. Rogers wrote:

> Daniel Morgan wrote:
>
>

>>Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>>
>>
>>>And they're a lot more safe on tape "forever" than they would be on disk.
>>>
>>>HJR
>>
>>Not my experience. On what is your statement based?
>>
>>Thanks.

>
>
> On having formatted more hard drives than I can shake a stick at, and also
> on having happily zip-locked plenty of tape cartridges and sent them off to
> a bank vault.
>
> Regards
> HJR
I'll agree with all of your comments and disagree with your conclusion.

I too have formatted a lot of hard disks. But never one with static content put away for safe storage.

Now the question that really matters. What makes you confident that those tapes you sent off were usable for recovery 5+ years later? 10+ year later? Or more?

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 00:13:34 CDT