Hello, you can create 4 copypools instead of one. In this case you could use the 4 libraries in parallel.
Regards, Fran ----- Mensaje original ---- De: Wanda Prather <wprat...@jasi.com> Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Enviado: viernes, 10 de julio, 2009 3:33:56 Asunto: Desperation, DR, and four TS3100 libraries... I'm drawing a blank here, any suggestions welcomed. I have a TSM customer who makes their copypool tapes using a TS3200 with LTO4 drives. The TS3200 is a rack-mounted, 2 drive, 40-mumble slot standard ASCII library. No issues. One copy pool, tapes vaulted and sent offsite. They want to go to a commercial DR vendor site and do a DR test next week. The commercial DR vendor, unbelievably, has no multi-drive LTO4-capable libraries. Instead, they want us to use 4 (count 'em, four) TS3100 libraries. The TS3100 is a rack-mounted, 1 drive, 20-mumble slot standard ASCII library. There's only 1 copy pool, so all tapes were created on the same device class. Ignoring the which-carts-would-go-in-which-library issue, I can't have a device class pointing to 4 libraries. And, the TS3100 is built in such a way that unlike a TS3500, you can't open the doors and access the drives for manual mounting. (I'd be happy to pull the covers off and try it, ignoring any warranties I might void, but I doubt the vendor will let me attack the thing with a screwdriver/wrench/hacksaw.) If I put all the carts in one TS3100 that will work, but that leaves me only 1 drive to restore all the clients, and they won't likely get done in the desired time window. The only thing I can think of to use all 4 drives, is to define those four TS3100's as 1 manual library with 4 manual drives, and use the front panel of each TS3100 to move tapes from the I/O slot to the drive when TSM requests a mount. (Actually the FIRST thing I thought of, was "cancel the DR contract, this is nonsense". But my customer isn't convinced yet...) Anybody got a better solution? I've already tried a margarita, it didn't help.... W