Rolf,
    I am sure the tape library can handle the data load.  Where most
problems happen is in the communications between the data centers.

   If your data centers are 200KM apart and connected by a 1Gbps link,
your bottleneck is the WAN link due to latency, cost and competition
with other data transmissions on that link such as normal client
operations, device mirroring operations and database operations. In this
case you will want to take a very hard look at what you are attempting
to achieve and consider options such as increasing data mirroring
between storage devices for protection and then backing that mirror up
locally.  You could also do as others have recommended recommend, as do
I - backup locally and ship copy media offsite with the TSM server DB
backup both locally and to the remote site using virtual volumes.

   If your datacenters are close - i.e. 100M, and connected on you local
ethernet and there is no competition for bandwidth between the buildings
with other devices, you should have few problems with a normal setup.
You would also want to backup the TSM server DB to the other TSM server
in this case also.

Cheers,
Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Rolf van der Zwart
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:31 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Setting up crossbackup datacenters with TSM

Hello Neil,

Yes that's no problem, we already have 1 taperobot for the 1-st backup
and 1 taperobot for the copy tapes (fiber).

Rolf.
> Rolf,
>    Have you verified that the link between the data centers can handle

> the data traffic generated during client backups?
>
> Neil Strand
> Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
> Baltimore, MD.
> (410) 580-7491
> Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
> Boldness has genius, power and magic.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Rolf van der Zwart
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:11 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Setting up crossbackup datacenters with TSM
>
> Hello,
>
> I have to set up cross backup between 2 datacenters. What is the
> best/easiest way to do this?
>
> As far as I can see I have to setup schedules/policy domains/policy
> sets/ management classes/backup and archive copy groups for both
> datacenters to be able to backup nodes to different tape-robots
> (device
> classes) as this is configured with "Copy destination" in the copy
> groups.
>
> Am I correct in this assumption? Anybody antoher idea?
>
> Windows 2003/TSM server 5.3.
>
> Rolf.
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