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QUESTION POSED ON: 23 September 2008
Why backup your libraries to a virtual tape drive when you can use a save file (SAVF)? Both can be FTP'd anywhere in the world onto any platform?


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The major reason is that you can save MANY libraries using one save command to a virtual tape and only ONE library per save command to a Save File.




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