On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:18 PM, W. Curtis Preston <wcplis...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Wanda, > > I read all the replies already, and the Gresham idea looks the most > promising. > > You will be telling your customer that their "DR vendor" is retarded, > right? Been there, done that! Hasn't sunk in yet..... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > Wanda Prather > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:34 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] 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 >