Rik,

your procedure looks fine if your DB is small, but for big DBs (ours is
28 GB and still growing) it is quite expensive. But perhaps you are
right; adding some disks may be cheaper than buying DRM ...

Regards,

Reinhard

Rik Foote writes:
 > We don't have any DRM or server-to-server licenses but are managing to
 > exchange DB backups b/w 2 ADSM servers manually.
 >
 > Our environment is
 > OS = SUN Solaris v2.6
 > ADSM = v3.1.2.1
 > 2 x 3590 (B11s) with a 10-slot ACL SCSI library each
 >
 > We set up the following manual DB exchange between our servers to save
 > having to use one scratch cart per day in our 10 slot stackers for DB
 > backups, as we use almost all the 10 carts daily for archive/backup. If we
 > used one cart per day, and kept each for one week we practically had to
 > devote one whole stacker to DB backups unless we checked out the cartridge
 > each day and replaced it.
 >
 > We were able to do it by
 >
 > o    writing the DB backups to disk (COMMAND = backup db type=full
 > devclass=dbbackup)
 > o    then using a UNIX script to transmit them to the second server
 > o    Once there they are archived (retention period = one week) and deleted
 > by the second server (COMMAND = -archm=MC1WEEKA -delete -filesonly)
 >
 > We do this both ways between the two servers. So we are able to retain
 > copies of our DB at both sites, doing away with the need for copying the db
 > backup carts and sending them offsite.

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