> We set this up at a customer.  We created a storage pool called sysback and
> defined tape volumes to this pool.  Then we used these volumes for sysback.
> Actually, we did it the other way around: we created the sysback tape and
> then defined it to the pool.  Once defined to the pool, *SM won't try to
> grab the tape for something else.  You can even check the tape out and
> update its access to off-site if you would like.

We are also thinking about sysback and adsm.  Why not make the adsm server
the sysback server, and backup to a disk volume that ADSM then backs up?
I recovery would mean restoring the sysback image to disk first.  Or is
this not possible?  I do not know much about how sysback works at this
point...

Steve Roder, University at Buffalo
VM Systems Programmer
UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
ADSM Administrator
(tkssteve AT buffalo DOT edu | (716)645-3564 | 
http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~tkssteve)