pstephen
ADSM.ORG Member
We are using DRM to manage the off-site vaulting of our Copy Storage Pools.
Now we want to begin to use Archiving to do full backups of some servers and databases and retain the backups for specific retention periods.
What I would like to do is migrate the Disk ARCHIVEPOOL to a Sequential Tape ARCHIVEPOOL and checkout the Tape Archivepool volumes for off-site disaster recovery. I would like DRM to manage the checkout and off-site rotation of these Tape Archivepool volumes.
I know I could make a Backup copy pool of my Tape Archive Pool and use DRM to manage the Archive Copypool volumes, but this would involve a lot of tape to tape copys that I do not want to do. The only reason for making these Archive backups is to take them off-site for DR, so why should I waste all the time (and expensive tape cartridges) to make a backup copypool of my Archive tape pool? I realize I would not have the Archives on-site if I needed to restore, but my plan is to do most (if not all) restores from the Incremental backups which do remain in my tape library. So the Archives are only used in a disaster, so it makes sense for DRM to manage them.
Is there a way to add my Primary Sequential Access Tape Archive pool to DRM?
Thanks for any information or guidance you can provide...
Now we want to begin to use Archiving to do full backups of some servers and databases and retain the backups for specific retention periods.
What I would like to do is migrate the Disk ARCHIVEPOOL to a Sequential Tape ARCHIVEPOOL and checkout the Tape Archivepool volumes for off-site disaster recovery. I would like DRM to manage the checkout and off-site rotation of these Tape Archivepool volumes.
I know I could make a Backup copy pool of my Tape Archive Pool and use DRM to manage the Archive Copypool volumes, but this would involve a lot of tape to tape copys that I do not want to do. The only reason for making these Archive backups is to take them off-site for DR, so why should I waste all the time (and expensive tape cartridges) to make a backup copypool of my Archive tape pool? I realize I would not have the Archives on-site if I needed to restore, but my plan is to do most (if not all) restores from the Incremental backups which do remain in my tape library. So the Archives are only used in a disaster, so it makes sense for DRM to manage them.
Is there a way to add my Primary Sequential Access Tape Archive pool to DRM?
Thanks for any information or guidance you can provide...