Hi Roger,
Thanks for your response.

We're using a tape drive with an automounter which can have 12 tapes. For the
moment, all of them are in used.

So if we want to copy the database and data every day to these "off site"
tapes.
Adsm will ask to load the first volume on the tape device, it will then ask for
another tape to be loaded (because we are using all the 12 tapes that are in
the device, no more tapes are available in the device) so that it can copy to
it.It means that ADSM will read a tape then ask for another to copy and for all
the 12 tapes. It's a lot of work every day. But maybe we misunderstand the
process of the copy. I hope I'm clear.

I would like to ask another question: Is ADSM will ask for new tapes(the one
which are on site) or we can run a sort of expiration process to always use
this *only* 12 tapes ?

Regards,
Gerald.

Roger Hohmann wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> at first: what you want to do is not adsm-like. adsm means 'incremental
> forever' and backup of backups. If you *must* implement the described
> scenery, you might fall into trouble.
>
> Usually you make incrementals and leave the tapes in the robot, and once
> per day you should copy your stgp *and* database and move them offsite. I
> don't understand your mounting problems with copy stgp when you have a tape
> robot. If you need 2 copies, you can define 2 stgpools, use them each
> another week and delete and reuse the volumes after 2 weeks.
>
> Regards
>
> Roger Hohmann
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:   John Sherlock [SMTP:jsherloc AT BOOLE DOT COM]
> Sent:   Friday, October 02, 1998 12:02 PM
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:        Using 2 sets of tape & 100%cpu
>
> Hi guys,
>
> First of all I would like to say that since we have upgraded to PTF5, we
> are not experiencing 100% cpu load for the moment.
>
> Now the question:
> We're backing up our data for Novell, NT and Linux with a set of tapes.
> (We have a tape drive with a robot mounter). We want to use one set of
> tapes during one week with a full backup at the beginning of the week
> and incremental backups during the remaining days. After we want to send
> the tapes off site. We would like  to do the same thing the next week
> with another set of tapes. Then we want to reuse the first set of tape.
>
> DRM is not an option.
>
> The copy storage pool does not seem to be the solution because it would
> be too annoying,
> as it would need a lot of user interaction i.e. mounting and unmounting
> of tapes and this is what we are trying to get away from.
>
> Regards
> John  Sherlock