> I got to thinking about 3494 category codes in the middle of the night > when I should have been sleeping (can you tell my DR test is soon?). > > If I load the DR 3494 with my copypool tapes and let the 3494 do an > audit operation while I am restoring my tsm machine from a sysback > tape, will all the tapes be in Insert category? The recovery scripts > that DRM prepares do not include any "checkin libvol" statements. > Aren't I going to have to checkin all those tapes before they can be > used? The tsm db that I will be restoring won't have any of them in > libvol because they are all offsite. > > David Ehresman > University of Louisville
I am also preparing for my first DR test with a 3494, although it is a bit further off than yours. A related question occurs to me: is it necessary to use mtlib to change the categories of the tapes used to restore the TSM database?
