My advice would be that if you've a mix of archive and backup tapes (with
the backups and archives seperated into different storage pools), you can
move the archive tapes out of the library assuming you don't need them too
often. You really never ever want to move tapes containing backups out of
the library unless you enjoy tedium and mental anguish.  Things like tape
reclamation and restore processes become nightmarish.

-brian.
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Pat Wilson wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Pat Wilson wrote:

> Ooo, ick.  ADSM just does *not* deal well with drive failures,
> does it?  I've spent all day today trying to recover from one of
> my two drives eating a bad tape...
>
> Thanks for the warning, though.
>
> --paw
>
>
> >  I, too, would advise caution if/when you ultimately pursue this.
> >  We were faced with the same issue when our 3494 rapidly filled
> >  up. Management balked at an additional frame so we began to
> >  remove tapes. It was somewhat more confusing b/c we had two ADSM
> >  servers sharing the 3494, and when we had a tape drive go bad
> >  (the part that reads the cartridge type failed) which rejected
> >  incoming tapes, in the resulting confusion tapes with data from
> >  one server were checked into the library as scratch tapes for the
> >  other server. BAD JUJU!
> >
> >  Having said that, we are now successfully storing tapes in and
> >  outside of the library. You'll have to work out the best method
> >  to choose candidates for outside storage. The last thing you want
> >  to do is spend half your day making trips to the data center to
> >  insert tapes into your "automated" tape library.
> >
> >   -- Tom