Len - You guessed it - the 2nd library is in a remote DR location as the
off-site electronic vault.  We no longer transfer tapes.   This method has
been working great for years with the 3583's and we now need additional
space as we are adding additional backup clients to the mix.    Oh, btw,
we are not using ALMS - I probably shouldn't have used the word partition.
 Each library is just a single entity unto itself.

Larry Peifer
AIX System Administrator
Tivoli System Administrator
Oracle DBA
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station




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Larry,

If you use the ALMS feature of the 3584 library, then you are locked in to
the library doing the cleaning.
An ALMS is a pretty nice feature to be using.

PS Can I ask why you have two single partition libraries instead of one
with 2 partitions. Unless they are  in different locations. And maybe a
third partition for test use.

len

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Subject: [ADSM-L] IBM 3584 Tape Cleaning

Those of you who have the IBM 3584 tape libraries - please weigh in on
pros/cons of using either the Automatic Cleaning method of the host
library or the Tape cleaning management method of the TSM server.  We are
configuring  two 3584's to replace our four 3583 libraries.  Our
environment is TSM 5.3x server on AIX  5.3 with LTO2 drives and LTO2 tapes
in the libraries with each library configured as it's own single
partition.