I think in the case of having to run 2 backups jobs I would run one backup job and then run a utility job to copy the 1st set of tapes to the remote set of tapes.
Jim Dodds Systems Programmer Kentucky State University 400 East Main Street Frankfort, Ky 40601 502 597 6114 -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Llewellyn Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VM:Backup: Twinning Tapes to Remote Tape Unit Greetings, We are ramping up our Technical Recovery Plan, and intend to use channel- extended tape units at a remote location when performing our regular full and incremental backups. We use CA's VM:BACKUP for file-level backups, and will be using VM:HiDRO to capture the system image. We're curious as to whether any other CA customers are using the synchronous tape "twinning" feature with one local tape unit and one remote. We've been cautioned by our network folks that the response time from the remote tape unit would be quite a limiting factor affecting the speed of a synchronous, twinned backup. 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. Any anecdotes or insight would be most welcome! Mark Llewellyn VM Systems Support Visa, Inc.
