Vaulting/Offsite Tapes

[jamesjfa]

We had TSM installed around April last year and since then have not taken any tapes out or offsite. This now has to be addressed. We have a 30 slot library and within this library we have 27 tapes. These are:



2 x DbBackup

1 x Cleaning

2 x scratch

11 x Primary StgPools (mixture of full and filling)

11 x CpyTapePools (mixture of full and filling)



I have an additional 5 tapes that are yet to be labelled.



Can anyone advise me how to do this? Also can you make it as simple as possible as I am new at this.



I thought about Autovault but we are now wanting to spend the money on it.



If I need to buy more tapes, how many more would I need?



I would really appreciate it if you could help me out with this.

 

[rcard]

Have you looked at TSM Disaster Recovery Manager? It will do it all for you!

 

[jamesjfa]

We dont have the money to buy the license for DRM.



Are there any other utilities scripts etc that can help me manage the library and offsite tapes. How long would tapes be offsite? Do they rotate on a weekly basis?

 

[jfsilverman]

In the new license model, DRM is included in the TSM Enterprise server license. I recommend using it.

 

[RossB2086]

Look into TSMManager. Only $3k and does a lot more than vaulting. Helps save you many hours on your daily operations and lots more. Worth every penny.