Why don't you just define your DDS drive as a device in TSM. That way cut
out the extra step.  I currently back up the DB during the day (when TSM is
for the most part Idle) and backup my OS and config files at night to
another tape.  That way in the event I lose the TSM server I can get it
back online with two tapes. Just define the DDS tape drive as a Manual
Drive and your all set.  One pit fall in AIX is that you can't have the
Unix and Tivoli drivers both set as available at the same time. so I leave
the Unix driver as "defined" in Unix and switch it to available to do the
OS backup.

Rich Taft
Systems Specialist
Ricoh Corp





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Hello all,

I currently do on-disk db backups (to a file devclass) of my relatively
small (2 gb) database.  Full on Saturday, incrementals Sun-Fri.  I keep 2
weeks of backups on disk.

I need to start implementing an offsite stgpool.  Instead of wasting a
100gb LTO tape for the db, i'm thinking about just tarring the on-disk
backup to a DDS3 drive.  I'll also put vol history and devconfig on the
DDS3 tape, and send it offsite with the LTO tapes..  I think it'll be a
very long time before the db exceeds the 12gb capacity of DDS3.

Anyone see any problems/gotchas with sending the db offsite this way?

Thanks,
Ray
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Ray DeJean                                       http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Administrator               Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist              AIX Administration, AIX Support
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