Yes, but how?  There is only one scratch pool and tapes are allocated from
this scratch pool as needed when the primary tapepool is backed up to the
offsite tapeback.  Is there a way to define 2 scratch pools and allocate
primary tapes from the Kscratch pool and offsite from the Jscratch pool?

Eliza

>
> Hi Eliza,
> Define K tapes to onsite storage pools and J tapes to offsite pools.
>
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>                     Eliza Lau
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>                     12.06.2002
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> Hi TSMers,
>
> We are looking into replacing 1200 3590 J tapes with 600 3590 extended length
> K tapes to make room in the 3494.  While the state is cutting 9% of the
> University's budget, it is a tremendous waste to throw away 1200 perfectly
> fine tapes.  Now my boss wants to know if there is a way we can use the
> J tapes for the offsite storage pool only.  I looked throught the Admin
> Reference and there doesn't seem to be a way to do:
>
>    backup stgpool tapepool tapeback scratch=no volumenames=file:listof3590
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> server: TSM 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3
> tape library: 3494
>
>
> Thanks,
> Eliza Lau
> Virginia Tech Computing Center
> 1700 Pratt Drive
> Blacksburg, VA 24060
> lau AT vt DOT edu
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