No, collocation on the offsite pools is not feasable - I'd have tapes
shipping offsite with 1 or 2 files on them.  With 3590 tape, that gets
expensive fast.

And your data is still spread over tapes - one for every offsite shipping
period (usually daily).  So you have more tapes offsite, but with less data
on each one.  It really wouldn't speed up the restores much at all.  That's
why I didn't go to collocation - it just didn't make sense.

I have a certain number of systems that are Disaster Recoverable - they are
contracted to be back online within 72 hours of a disaster being declared.
Those are the ones that I do the weekly fulls on - the "non-production"
machines only get daily incrementals, since the restore time on them
doesn't matter.

Nick Cassimatis
nickpc AT us.ibm DOT com

If you don't have the time to do it right the first time, where will you
find the time to do it again?