We issue the Upd vol command to mark the tapes offsite via an Admin Schedule.
I believe the DRM acility does a similar process.  You might be able to have
a scheduled TMS command issue the F ADSM,U VOL command...... We have TMS
looking for the messages that come out of the U VOL command to know which
tapes to eject from the STK Silos and prepare for offsite shipping.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson@thehartford


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Subject: Re: Re/Que: DR Question for Copy Pools
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    5/7/97 1:52 PM


Christo,
Once the volumes are marked offsite ADSM will not request that the tape
be mounted.  ADSM will merely ask for a new scratch volume.  As for a
one-to-one relationship between volumes - definitely not.  All sorts of
things could happen to cause more files to be placed on a volume in the
primary versus a volume in the copy.

Now I have a question. What mechanism marks vols offsite?  I know it can
be done manually with the upd vol command.  But can it be done
automatically, with TMS or RMM hooks perhaps?

Ron Clendenny  <rdclendenny AT cal.ue DOT com>
Callaway Nuclear Power Plant
Fulton, Missouri

"You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christo Heuer [SMTP:christoh AT ABSA.CO DOT ZA]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 1997 3:30 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re/Que: DR Question for Copy Pools
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> I have a question for you or anybody that can shed some light on this
> subject.
>
> Seems like you've got some experience on the off-site issues of ADSM.
> What I'm wondering about is the following:
> Is there a one to one relationship between volumes in your primary
> tape pool
> and the copy tape pool, or is it a pool to pool relationship?
>
> The reason I'm asking this is the issue of the copypool tapes having
> to go
> off-site.
> Say for instance if we use Fred's example - You do your first copy of
> the 300GB
> to your copypool, once completed these tapes have to go off-site. The
> next
 > night
> you do another copy to the copypool(which in effect will be incr. in
> nature),
> to what
> will the copy process copy? To the remaining tapes in the copypool?
>
> We will have to implement this in the near future so I was just
> wondering if
> there are any GOTCHA's that I must make provision for...
>
> TIA
>
> Christo Heuer
> Johannesburg
> South Africa
> Christoh AT absa.co DOT za
>
>
>
>
> > Fred,
> > You are on the right track.  After the first big copy, the nightly
> > copies will be easy.  I fire off a backup copypool about 4 am each
> > morning to get the copy pools up to date from the night's backups.
> Bear
> > in mind that for the first big copy of 300GB you can start and stop
> the
> > backup copypool many times, and, if you are limited on tape drives,
> you
> > will have to.  You will pay a time penalty, though, each time ADSM
> has
> > to figure out where he left off (on the order of about 30 min to an
> > hour).
> > Good luck, its fun to watch it grow. Ya I know, I'm sick and
> twisted.
> > Not as bad as that Dwight Cook, though...
> >
> > Ron Clendenny  <rdclendenny AT cal.ue DOT com>
> > Callaway Nuclear Power Plant
> > Fulton, Missouri
> >
> > "You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?" - Steven
> Wright
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Fred Urso [SMTP:furso AT ISM DOT CA]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 1997 4:51 PM
> > > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > > Subject:      DR Question for Copy Pools





> > >
> > > I am in the process of developing a disaster offsite plan for our
> > > current ADSM environment.
> > >
> > > Now since ADSM has been running for about 6-8 months now and there
> is
> > > about 300GB of data in
> > > the TAPE Storage Pool and about 35GB in the primary Disk Storage
> Pool.
> > >
> > > If i wanted to create offsite tapes does this mean that I would
> have
 > > > to copy all 300GB and 35GB to
> > > tapes within the COPY Storage Pool, and then I could do
> incrementals
> > > COPY'S from here on in.
> > >
> > > Am I on the right track here...Because copying 300GB would take a
> > > while. But is the only
> > > way to get the offsite tapes up-to-date.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > furso AT ism DOT ca