It is possible but has its limitations. I even made TSM working with single drive (manual lib) for both primary and copypool. In such cases periodic selective (forced fulls) might be of some use.
Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Etienne Brodeur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14.03.2003 23:34 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Can you use a manual tape drive for your copypool? Hi all, Can TSM use a small autoloader to do the onsite copies and a manual tape drive to do the offsite copies. The offsite copies couldn't be reclamed, but they could be destroyed when they have very little data left on them. Next time an offsite copy is done, the deleted files would be re-transfered to the offsite copy. Since you still can't reclaim offsite tapes to a reclaimpool, this could be done on a small install so that you don't need a two drive library to use TSM to backup your data? What do you guys think? Etienne Brodeur