On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:28, Othonas Xixis wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way or a company where the TSM DB or Data Tapes can
> be duplicated (in a hardware level) ?
>
> I do understand the duplication methods within TSM and I am not interested
> at this time because I can't use them.
> We are in a real disaster recovery situation, not where we lost the TSM
> server, but where we lost portions of the data on the tapes, and now we
> have legal requirements that we need to fulfill.

You *could* use AIX's tcopy to duplicate a tape, but I wouldn't
recommend it, and wouldn't do it for a customer. If you've lost your
data, you've lost it; duplicating the tape won't haul it back.

I realize that this is probably a case of closing the barn door after
the horse has gotten out, but your situation is why the concept of
offsite tape pools was created.

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)