Hi Gary,
The option that you are looking for is copypool.
If you only have one drive available this option is not going to help you -
you need at least two drives to make a copy of your tape pool.
Let me give you some direction assuming you have two drives or you get
your 3570 soon.
You have your primary tape pool - Let's call it tapepool1
You need to create a copy pool for off site tapes:
Command - DEF STG tapepool2 devclasstape PO=CO
This command will define a new tape pool called tapepool2 assigned to devclass
whatever you use for the tape.
Next you need to set up an admin schedule to issue the command that
will copy your primary to your off-site pool (tapepool2).
Command - BA STG tapepool1 tapepool2.
You can set up this schedule to kick off only on Sunday every week to
accomplish this.
I don't think there is anything else that I have left out - taking in
consideration
that I set this up about a year ago!
If I left out something else somebody will pick it up and point you in the
right direction but I think this is all you need to do.
If you get stuck, just shout!
Regards
Christo Heuer
Johannesburg
South Africa
Christoh AT absa.co DOT za
> Begging forgiveness for asking such a low tech question. I have been
> reading the listings faithfully for nearly a month but the answer to
> my concerns has not exactly surfaced. (Sorry for the length of this,
> but want to explain the environment.)
>
> ENVIRONMENT:
> RS/6000 R30, 24GB disk, 3490-e11, ADSM
>
> We are currently doing a nightly incremental. We have been able to
> recover files in the past but I am now on tape 11 and think there has
> to be a better way to run this ship.
>
> I want to be able to have a set of tapes to take offsite for disaster
> recovery. I have been reading several ADSM things on DR. Not all of
> what I read makes sense and so I must assume that I am missing some
> key concept that would clarify this picture.
>
> Here's what I want to do:
> 1) Run unattended backups (incremental) ** currently doing this
> 2) Keep my tape volumes from growing to infinity ** not currently a
> problem but will eventually be as this machine aquires more
> applications.
> 3) Create an offsite tape or tapes that, at least for now would be
> done weekly.
>
> I have read in the ADSM Admin Guide on page 272-273 a reference to a
> Full Storage Pool Backup. The example states, I think, what I want to
> be able to do. I can't seem to get into my head how to make this work
> with my situation.
>
> I only have one client, the RS/6000. I have defined 1 Policy Domain
> (ADSM_MHESAC), with 1 Policy Set named AIXBKPOLICY, with 1 Management
> Class named ACTIVEFILES, no archive group, 1 backup group, and one
> tape pool. The files are backed up (currently incremental) via the
> scheduler directly to the tape pool which is my primary pool.
>
> With one tape drive currently ( we may be getting a 3570 with two
> drives, I hope, I hope) I don't really understand how to do what they
> are talking about on page 272-273.
>
> I would greatly appreciate some enlightenment. I think I've read most
> every thing in the manuals and I still have no clue. I your answer is
> ..."Read the blankety, blank manual!!!", that's valid. I won't be
> offended, just point me to a section or sections that will clear this
> mess up for me. Thanks in advance for anyone that can shed some
> light on this for me.
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> Gary K. Luther gkl AT mhesac DOT org
> 2500 Broadway aixapl2 AT initco DOT net
> Helena, MT 59601 http://www.initco.net/~aixapl2
> 406-444-0631 FAX: 406-444-0684
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