>Put a VTS in your DR site connected to you as the site for the twin
>tapes. No movement of tapes now.
In fact, our remote site has a VTS for DR backups. Our local backups
are still in an STK silo. My comment about tape movement was in context
with David's suggestion of a fallback when the channel extension link is
down: make a second local backup and send the tapes offsite. A VTS at
the DR site doesn't help there.
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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Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 08:25
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Subject: Re: [IBMVM] VM:Backup: Twinning Tapes to Remote Tape Unit
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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