What DRM does is track tapes for you when you eject them from the library
and send them to an offsite vault.

If you have the luxury of a second 3494 in a different location, you have
the easiest possible scenario!
Just make your copy pool tapes and DB backup tapes in the second library.

They won't get ejected and physically moved, so DRM doesn't have to get
involved at all!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Clark [SMTP:Larry_Clark AT THRUWAY.STATE.NY DOT US]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:37 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      DRM question
>
> We are planning on installing DRM and possibly a second 3494 tape library
> physic
> ally located in another building. The second library would hold our
> copypool vol
> umes and allow us to maintain them in a separate building and avoid having
> to ph
> ysically handle them thus providing for a relatively 'hands off' ADSM
> environmen
> t.
> From what I understand DRM allows for storing copypools on 'virtual
> volumes' on
> another server, but in this case this second library would be defined to
> our sin
> gle ADSM server. Would this configuration work within the DRM environment?
>
> Regards,
> Larry Clark
> NYS Thruway Authority