You can backup the TSM DB to devclass of type file.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sal Mangiapane [mailto:salm AT VITALDS DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 12:50 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: direct attached disk (DAS) at a tape library?

I was under the impression that the TSM database MUST be backed up to
tape.  Is this true?

Also, does anyone know of tape emulator software only? (without having
to purchase a new disk array with that feature)  We are running TSM
5.1.5 on Red Hat Linux 2.4.19.

Sal
Vital Data Systems, LLC

Jim Sporer wrote:
> EMC also has a tape emulator that goes in front of their ATA storage.  We
> couldn't see any benefit to having tape emulation for TSM storage so opted
> to just use the ATA storage.
> Jim Sporer