Are you stating that you would be duplicating the tapes in a manner
completely unknown to TSM?  If so a couple of potential issues are:

1) If one of your primary pool tapes becomes unreadable, you would be
unable to have TSM do a "RESTORE VOLUME".
2) When TSM reclaims one of your primary pool tapes how will you know
which duplicate tape to return onsite?

H. Milton Johnson

 
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
David Browne
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 11:09 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Eliminating copy storage pool

Our Storage Administrator asked if we could do away with our offsite
copy
storage pool.    They would duplex our current onsite backups on a VTS,
the backend 9840 tapes would  be sent offsite, eliminating the need for
TSM's copy--storage-pool processing.

Has anyone done this before or have any thoughts on that?



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