Put a VTS in your DR site connected to you as the site for the twin
tapes. No movement of tapes now.
Physical tape shipment is scrutinized here. Tapes must either be
encrypted or hand-carried by a Bank employee to their destination. We'll
probably be moving to an all-VTS environment in a year or two, which
makes shipment even more of a problem. When I implemented the remote DR
process, I added the capability to fall back to local tapes. After a few
years of never using it, I took the code out and we freed up the tape
range for something else. If the channel extension is down, the offsite
backups just wait for it to come back up.
Dennis O'Brien
"Don't worry about biting off more than you can chew. Your mouth is
bigger than you think." -- CVW-11 chaplain, "Carrier"
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