I just reread your original post, realized you are removing all the LTO3
drives, correct?
I don't know if you can (safely) define your LTO4 drives to multiple TSM
libraries.
What you could do instead, is check the LTO3 cartridiges in as PRIVATE
instead of scratch, then run your EXPORTs with a FILE: parm to list the
volumes to be used.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Cheung, Richard
<Richard.Cheung AT santos DOT com>wrote:
> A 3584 with 4 frames, looking to add 1 or 2 more frames at present...
>
>
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> Wanda Prather
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> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] using different media for permanent offsite copies
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> What kind of library do you have?
>
> (What you are suggesting usually works just fine.)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Cheung, Richard
> <Richard.Cheung AT santos DOT com>wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > Need to know if this is feasible as an idea..
> >
> > We are about to move to a LTO4 media library instead of LTO3s - by
> > replacing the remaining LTO3 drives we have with LTO4s... by marking
> > the existing LTO3 tapes all 'read only' and putting in LTO4 media for
> > write operatons etc, eventually our library should then only be
> > comprised of LTO4 media, with LTO3 media expired and can be removed
> from
> > the library.
> >
> > We are going to have an enormous amount of LTO3 media after this which
> > we wont use for the normal backup cycle. We however do have a
> business
> > requirement to have regular (quarterly) full copies of the backups for
> > permanent offsite archival due to legal requirements. Yes, aware this
> > means we would need to have hardware available to read such data for
> the
> > next 5 years etc....
> >
> > Would it be feasible as an idea to define a second logical library -
> > call it 'archive' perhaps within my existing physical library, define
> a
> > new media pool referencing this logical library which will only be
> > designated with LTO3, put the LTO3 media in there, and generate
> offsite
> > copies to this media? It would either be an export data operation or
> > generate backup set to this meda pool..
> >
> > Does that sound feasible?
> >
> > Richard
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