Hi Minns,

We are currently doing that. Taking tapes out of the library and leave them
onsite for restore purposes but it's a pain to place the tape back into the
library to perform the restore. The data may reside on multiple tapes.

Are you running reclaimation on your onsite tapes? If you are, try to run it
more regularly after your maintenance but before your backup schedules.

Hopefully this help

Regards,
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Farren Minns [mailto:fminns AT WILEY.CO DOT UK]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 8:47 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 3494 and tapes question.

Hi TSMers

I am looking at what to do in the next year or so when our tape library
becomes full. Baring in mind that we don't do much in the way of restores
(most backups are for DR), is it feasible to remove tapes from the library
and just keep them on site in case they are requested for a restore,
reclamation etc. Does anyone out there do this kind of thing and how does
it work for you?

Thanks all

Farren Minns - John Wiley & Sons Ltd