See "Backin up Storage Pools" in the ADSM Administrator Guide.
The process involves defining a copy storage pool using your 8mm
tapes, and running daily incremental backups of your primary storage
pools to your copy storage pool.

Dennis Knee wrote:
>
> How do I go about getting my adsm tapes backed up. Do I copy from say a
> 3570 vol to say an 8mm vol, and then mark the 8mm as offsite?

See "Backin up Storage Pools" in the ADSM Administrator Guide.
The process involves defining a copy storage pool using your 8mm
tapes, and running daily incremental backups of your primary storage
pools to your copy storage pool. The copypool tapes can be stored
offsite.

>
> If I need to access the 8mm copy in case something happens to the 3570,
> do I just add the volume back, and copy it back to another 3570 vol?

You can rebuild a damaged primary tape from your offsite tapes.


>
> What if a 3570 vol that has already been backed up becomes eligible for
> reclamation?

You are not backing up the tape, you are creating copies of the files
that are on the tape. Reclaiming the primary tape does not affect the
copies
in the copy pool.

>
> I apologize if this is too elementary.
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Dennis Knee
> Information Technology
> Church of the Nazarene