We are still at the planning stage of a first ADSM installation and
are considering what provision needs to be made for out of action
tape libraries. If a tape library has broken robotics, for example,
which may take some time to fix, can a stand-alone drive be used for
performing restores. Can you tell ADSM that a particular tape is now
in a different 'library' ? If you have a 2nd ADSM server with its own
tape library - is there any way to persuade this server to accept a
tape from the broken library ?

Has anyone had any experience with this sort of problem ?
Or does everyone just ensure that they have a very good maintenance
contract ?

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 Steven Bridge     Systems Group, Information Systems, EISD
                          University College London
 email: s.bridge AT ucl.ac DOT uk                   tel: +44 171-504 2794