Our offsite courier comes once a week on Mondays.
1. Each morning, we backup or primary storage pools to our copy pool.

2. Over the weekend, we lower the reclimation threshold on our copy
pool from 100% to 60%, allowing the full weekend for reclimation
processing to occur.

3. On Monday morning, after our primary storage pool backup, we identify
our current onsite copypool tapes.
"q vol stg=copystg access=readw"

4. These tapes are then updated to offsite status.
"update vol <volid> access=offsite"

5. They are then packaged for pickup by our courier.

6. We then identify the offsite tapes that have been reclaimed.
"q vol access=offsite status=pending"

7. When the courier arrives, he is given a list of the pending tapes for
return on his next delivery.

8. Reclaimed tapes that are returned are then updated to read write.
"update vol <volid> access=readw"

9 When our reuse delay period passes (10 days) the returned tapes become
available
for reuse.

Neal Adams wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if any of you are handling your offsite backups without the
> use of DRM? If so, how did you go about doing it?
>
> What type of procedures have you implemented ?
> Is there an FAQ that covers this subject?
>
> We're running ADSM Version 2 on AIX with a 9714 and if it isn't obvious I'm
> pretty new to the ADSM game.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Neal
>
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> Neal V. Adams
> SLAC Computing Services -- Systems Group
> phone: 650-926-2821
> email: neal AT slac.stanford DOT edu
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