We have a new Magstar 3494 Tape Library Subsystem with two 3590 drives.
I am also new to ADSM and just got HSM to work a couple of weeks ago.  Now I
have to work out a backup scheme to make offsite tapes of the HSM storage pool
for disaster recovery.  The OS is AIX 4.1.4.  What I have in mind is

Week1:
> backup stgpool tapepool offsite_a
All the tapes are in one big scratch pool.  Somehow find out what tapes have
been used. Eject them and send them offsite.

Week2:
> backup stgpool tapepool offsite_b
Send tapes offsite.

Week3:
> backup stgpool tapepool offsite_c
Send tapes offsite.

Week4:
Bring offsite_a back, delete the storage pool offsite_a to clean out the
database and return the tape to the scratch pool.
> backup stgpool tapepool offsite_a
Send tapes offsite.

Cycle through the offsite sets in subsequent weeks.  Daily incremental backups
are also done to an onsite storage pool with a
> backup stgpool tapepool tapecopy


Will this scheme work?  What backup procedure do you recommend?

Q: How do I reject tapes and put them in the i/o slots in the front of the 3494?
Q: What IBM redbook on ADSM AIX client do you recommend?

Thanks in advance,
Eliza Lau

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 Eliza Lau
 Eliza Lau
 Virginia Tech Computing Center                Internet : eliza.lau AT vt DOT 
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 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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