I would write a signed certificate of guarentee and give it to my
management:

"Our company will lose data"

Bill Smoldt
STORServer, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Wholey, Joseph (IDS DM&DS)
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:05 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge


A "little" off the subject, and I already heard Richard Simms view on not
having a second copy...  but what are most shops doing with respect to a
second copy.
I'm in a pretty large shop and upper management, in a cost savings effort,
wants us to turn off the creation of a second tape copy.  I'm not too
comfortable with the idea.  What are "your" thoughts?

-----Original Message-----
From: Coats, Jack [mailto:Jack.Coats AT BANKSTERLING DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:38 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge


Try doing a move data to get the data off of the tape.  If I find I am
starting to have problems I usually do a:

        update vol VOLUMENAME acc=reado
        move data VOLUMENAME

This should move all data that is recoverable from the volume to another
volume in the same storage pool.  I then eject the offending volume and
check it for apparent physical issues.  Then the part I hate:

        delete vol VOLUMENAME discarddata=yes

Sometimes I am able to re-label the volume and use it again.  But
typically it gets moved to a less critical use, returned to the vendor
for a new tape [my preferred method], or degaused and distroyed by
a certified vendor [least preferred, paying to have it thrown away].

If anyone has a better method, please let me know! ... JC

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerhard Rentschler [mailto:g.rentschler AT RUS.UNI-STUTTGART DOT DE]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:24 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge


Hello,
I forgot to mention that because of lack of resources I can't afford a
copypool for the backup files. I have one for the archives.
Best regards
Gerhard

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Germany



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Juan Manuel Lopez Azanon
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:02 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Saving data on a defective cartridge
>
>
> Disaster recovery management: Restore it from outside volumes from copy
> stgpool
>