It is the basic philosophy of TSM to have only one copy of a file in a PRIMARY STORAGE POOL. With TSM 5.x you can simultaneously write to a PRIMARY STORAGE POOL and COPY STORAGE POOL (see HELP DEFINE STGPOOL).
H. Milton Johnson -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Duel tape write to LTO's Hello all, We are backing our server from disk to tape on a LTO 3584 Library drives 4 drives (1-4) We just added a 2nd library LTO (same 3584) Is it possible to backup to the 2nd library LTO simultaneously. In other words were backing up to tape 1 on Lib_LTO and would like to backup to Tape 2 on the new library at the same time. We want Duel tape backup and don't want to use copy groups if we don't have to. 3584 Lib_LTO A has 4 drives (1-4) 3584 Rmt_LTO B has 4 drives (5-8) TSM version 5.2.3.1 AIX 5.2 Thanks in advance for any help!