That would be by far the easiest way, but VM:Backup is not able to handle copied tapes at a BRP site - it's catalog wouldn't match.
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:38 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM:Backup: Twinning Tapes to Remote Tape Unit >>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:12 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Llewellyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Our other option is to simply run two backup jobs, one to the local > drive and one to the remote, but that effectively doubles the hit of > the backup jobs. Not if you do the backup to local tape drives, and then do a tape-to-tape copy to the remote drives. Mark Post
