My thinking is ALWAYS have a second copy. Have had a rash of bad tapes over the past year. Thanks to the offsite storage pool, I have only lost two files in six years of using adsm/tsm for approximately 100 clients. One of those lost files occurred before I had the resources to have an offsite copy. The other was just plain bad luck. Both onsite and offsite copies were on 3590 volumes in the bad batch. I have my onsite pool colocated by filespace, but the offsite pool is of course, not colocated. I do reclamations every day, and the offsite pool uses about two thirds the cartridges of the onsite. Worth every blasted cartridge to me.
Gary Lee Senior Operating Systems Analyst Ball State University phone 765-285-1310 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.519 / Virus Database: 317 - Release Date: 9/17/03
