Maybe he has access to a pair of tape drives outside of the library,
and is trying to keep from tying up a pair of drives in the library.
[RC]
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:06:48PM -0700, Kelly Lipp wrote:
> And why would you do this? If you want to make two copies use TSM to do it.
> I see absolutely no advantage to doing this outside of TSM.
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
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> Walker, Lesley R
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>
> Sam Schrage asks:
> > What is the feasibility of making a copy of my offsite tapes
> > via the AIX command
> > 'tcopy', or other utility, rather than using TSM--another
> > storage pool, doing
> > the backup, etc.--and take this 'off-site' set of tapes to a
> > diaster recovery
> > test?
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Are you using barcode labelling? If so you would presumably need duplicate
> barcodes.
>
> You would need to be very careful about tracking the copies and the
> originals, otherwise you could be letting yourself in for some "interesting"
> and "fun" media management issues.
>
> Also, you would want to make sure you overwrite the TSM labels on the extra
> copies afterwards.
>
> Apart from those things, I can't see why it wouldn't work. As long as the
> utility copies the whole tape including the TSM label.
>
> --
> Lesley Walker
> Unix Engineering, EDS New Zealand
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