After initial backup of whole primary pool to the copy pool it will ask
only for tapes written during the day. If you did not checked out some of
them all ought to be available for backup to copypool.
Reclamation of copypool volumes is another story and will be very hard to
predict.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






Louis Primus <LPrimus AT INDIAN.VINU DOT EDU>
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01.11.2002 18:30
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        Subject:        copying backup tapes


We have 2-3581 tape drives (which hold 7 tapes each) attached to an NT
server running TSM and
we are trying to create a copy of our backup tapes.
We would like to preload the backup tapes to allow the copy process to run
in the evenings in an
unattended mode.
We have a problem knowing what sequence the backup tape will be called for
by TSM.
Does anyone know how to determine the sequence of the backup tape mounts
that TSM will ask
for during the copy process?
Thanks in advance Louie