Re: Drive upgrade and Media Migration Plan

We went from B series to E series drives. For our B series written tapes I
moved the data off of them to new volumes using the E drives and then
relabeled the old B series tapes to handle the new E series format. No
waste.

Robert RIppy.



From: J M <jm_seattle AT HOTMAIL DOT COM> on 11/26/2002 11:26 AM

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Subject:  Re: Drive upgrade and Media Migration Plan

We are considering upgrading from 3590-E1A drives to 3590-H1A drives...the
media write challenge is on the horizon...i.e. you can write 384 tracks on
scratch tapes but not on older K tapes that have 256 tracks.

So the question is- when you have limited budget and time (i.e. you don't
want to buy 2x the drives to do a speedy move data type migration to the
new
drives), what are some of the best practices for upgrading drive
technology,
migrating data for the new tape drive/media writes, without creating havoc
for day to day operations?

We could just upgrade the drives and write all new data to scratch tapes-
but this seems wasteful & risky

All ideas, commentary, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John





>From: "James, Phil" <Phil_James AT CALPERS.CA DOT GOV>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Tivoli Call Logging Website
>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:09:04 -0800
>
>This is the site to submit problems.
>
>http://www-3.ibm.com/software/support/probsub.html
>
>Philip A. James, Systems Software Specialist
>Software Services Unit
>Information Technology Services Division / Data Center
>California Public Employees' Retirement System
>Phone: (916) 326-3715
>Fax:     (916) 326-3884
>Email:  phil_james AT calpers.ca DOT gov
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nelson Kane [mailto:TSMUser AT AOL DOT COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:02 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Tivoli Call Logging Website
>
>
>Hello All,
>Does anyone know the website to log TSM issues
>with TSM instead of using the phone?
>Regards,
>-kane


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