Thanks to everyone on this.

Looks like the answer is 'NO!' then. We don't have the need to do it yet,
but I just wanted to put the feelers out there.

I guess the boss will have to stump up for a new frame or some drive
upgrades.

Thanks

Farren - John Wiley & Sons Ltd


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I would so strongly recommend that you do not remove onsite storage
volumes from you library if you can help it at all. Yes it will work,
but when you need to do restores, or reclaimation management becomes a
full time job. When we out grew our system I had a similar situation, I
ended up having to write a perl script to query the server every 5
minutes and email outstanding requests to my OPS team. Although there
are ways to find out what tape one might hold a nodes data while
preparing for a restore, there is no easy way to know which tape has the
active data. This makes tape shuffling very probable. Simply put, if
there is a way to keep it all in the robot, do so!


Craig Riley
The Children's Hospital in Denver
UNIX / TSM Admin

-----Original Message-----
From: Farren Minns [mailto:fminns AT WILEY.CO DOT UK]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:47 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


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