That's what I needed, thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Chris Koster
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:19 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Copypool Tape Ownership


You will have to decide which one of the instances will keep the
original copypool. For the other instance(s), blow away the offsite
copypool and generate a new one with BACKUP STGPOOL <Primary Pools> <New
Copypool Name>.  

I would suggest assigning the current copypool to the instance which
owns the largest dataset (ie. Mail TDP).

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Haberstroh, Debbie (IT)
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:48 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Copypool Tape Ownership

Hi All,

We are going to be moving our current TSM DB to a new server and
breaking it up into separate instances so that the databases will be
smaller. Our plan is to restore the DB as in a DR and then remove the
nodes and policy domains that will be on the 2nd instance, in essence
separating the DB.   Currently my tapes are collocated by node in the
tapepool (library) but the copypool (offsite) is not.  I know that for
the library I need to change ownership of the tapes to the new server(s)
but am not sure what happens with the copypool tapes.  I don't believe
that the different servers can track files on the same tape.  I have
read papers on using this method but have not found a reference on how
to handle the offsite tapes.  Can someone please point me in the right
direction?  Thanks.

Debbie Haberstroh
Server Administration
Northrop Grumman Information Technology 
Commercial, State & Local (CSL)
972-946-5639