I have used it to write database backups to.  Now it takes to many to make
it useful.  I even did a backup set at one time.

How?  I followed the directions in one of the manuals (yep, I forgot).
But it is there as an example and it is not very hard (once you see it ...
but 
isn't it all :)

To store data, I would not suggest it unless you have a big CD library or
VERY
little data.  For testing it could be OK.

I suspect you really want it to act as a WORM drive, but I havn't managed
to figure out how to do that yet (I havn't tried hard).  Reclaimation on
WORM is 
interesting.  The data is moved from write once media to another write once
media.  
So you basically do NOT want to do this unless you must (like media cannot
fit 
in the library, or you are running out of shelf space in your manual
library).  
Why?  Due to the expense of replacing media.  If using RW media, you can use
it 
the same way but erase the media for re-use when done, kind of like tapes or

other sequential storage.

-----Original Message-----
From: Juerg Waldmeier [mailto:juerg.waldmeier AT ZURICH DOT CH]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 8:07 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: CD writer instead of a tape drive


Hi everybody,
just having installed a TSM server in a small test Windows XP environment I
wonder if it is possible to configure an external CD writer for mass
storage purposes instead of a tape drive.


Best regards

Juerg Waldmeier
IBM Certified System Administrator AIX

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