A "little" off the subject, and I already heard Richard Simms view on not having a second copy... but what are most shops doing with respect to a second copy. I'm in a pretty large shop and upper management, in a cost savings effort, wants us to turn off the creation of a second tape copy. I'm not too comfortable with the idea. What are "your" thoughts?
-----Original Message----- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge Try doing a move data to get the data off of the tape. If I find I am starting to have problems I usually do a: update vol VOLUMENAME acc=reado move data VOLUMENAME This should move all data that is recoverable from the volume to another volume in the same storage pool. I then eject the offending volume and check it for apparent physical issues. Then the part I hate: delete vol VOLUMENAME discarddata=yes Sometimes I am able to re-label the volume and use it again. But typically it gets moved to a less critical use, returned to the vendor for a new tape [my preferred method], or degaused and distroyed by a certified vendor [least preferred, paying to have it thrown away]. If anyone has a better method, please let me know! ... JC -----Original Message----- From: Gerhard Rentschler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge Hello, I forgot to mention that because of lack of resources I can't afford a copypool for the backup files. I have one for the archives. Best regards Gerhard --- Gerhard Rentschler email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regional Computing Center tel. ++49/711/685 5806 University of Stuttgart fax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Juan Manuel Lopez Azanon > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge > > > Disaster recovery management: Restore it from outside volumes from copy > stgpool >