> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anoop Das [mailto:danoop AT IN.IBM DOT COM]

> Hi all

> I have two TSM servers connected to LTO 3583 located 300 KMs apart and the
> dbabckup for the same happens locally. I then send the dbbackups to
> offsite( Site-A to Site-B and viceversa) on a daily basis.

> Is it possible to take the dbbackup of server-A to the site-B drive and
> server-B to the site-A LTO drive?  This will relieve me of the manual
> activity of sending the dbbackup tapes taken locally to offsite daily. Also
> being a scheduled activity there is no chance for failures.


I'm doing server-to-server backups for my DB backups now: I've found several
substantial advantages to it:

- You can get more than one backup on a tape volume (increasingly important:
  my 3592 drives store about 1.4TB of compressed TSM DB)

- You can make copies of your main line of backups, instead of making a
  primary and some snapshots.


Consider: if you deploy a second TSM server on the same hardware at each site,
and then trade off copies, you'll get the best of both worlds: Fast local
creation of the backup, and diverse storage of the data in remote locations.

It's not too complex to deploy multiple server instances on the same hardware.
There's a little management overhead, and you'll be playing with shared
libraries, but the benefits are substantial.


- Allen S. Rout