>I have a customer who wants to install ADSM on an AIX
>server with only one 3570 tape drive.  I know he can
>do tape reclamation with one tape drive but he also
>wants to be able to do a copy storage pool to make a
>secondary copy of his backup data.  How will this work
>with only one tape drive?  The real issue is that he
>is planning on backing up a SQL database directly to
>tape and wants to make a secondary copy of that data
>from tape to tape with only one tape drive.  Can this
>be done?
>
>The only thing I can think of at this time is to have
>the customer backup to disk first instead of tape.
>Then backup the storage pool to a copy storage pool,
>which would put the data onto tape.  Then migrate the
>disk storage pool to a secondary storage pool which is
>tape.  I also suspect that outside of ADSM there are
>tape drive commands available just to copy a tape.  In
>this situation the data would be copied from tape to
>disk and then to a new tape.
>
>Please Advise.
>
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