We've considered using either FTP (or NFS mounted filesystems if performance
is acceptable) to accomlish the same thing for copying all of our critical
server objects/files to an alternate site- the DB backup to file should make
this all relatively easy--

From: Horst Scherzer <Horst.Scherzer AT UNIVIE.AC DOT AT>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: AW: Copy DBBackup tape to disk (AIX)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:19:23 +0200

Salak Juraj wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> no idea about your DD problem,
> but why do4nt you simply perform an out-of-bound backup to a disk
(device
> type=file) instead?
>
> If you can afford the extra CPU and disk last generated through
additional
> backup process,
> you will have supported configuration without extra external steps
> during backup and during restore.
>

To clarify the situation: DB assigned is 90GB, DB used is 63GB, full
database
backup lasts for +/- 3 hours; cartridge is ejected and vaulted to another
physical location by operations staff. But not so during weekends.

TSM Disks and tape storage reside physically side by side so a db backup to
disk
at the same physical location doesn't make really sense.
The idea was simply to "virtually" vault the db backup cartridge by the
means of
OS to remote disks via Gigabit ethernet.

And getting cheap copies of db backups is also a charming approach.

Gtx,
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