you can define the copy pool backup schedule command to use the drive you
want instead of letting adsm to search though the tape drive for an
available device.

Amerman, Anthony S. wrote:

> Hi,
>  I want to know if anyone has tried this and if it can work or not...
>  We have 6 drives in our STK9714 library, I want to know if I can assign
> 2 of the 6 tape drives to be used for making an offsite copy pool.  So
> the normal scheduled backups are done on 4 of the drives and the offsite
> copy pool is made with the other 2.
> Would this work?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Shane
>
> Anthony Shane Amerman
> Legg Mason, Corporate Technology
> UNIX Systems Engineer
> 410-454-3081 25th Floor