Hi 

There will be no tape devices available for the first DR test. So a
temporary disk subsystem has been allocated to us for restores at the DR
site. So we need to get all data on this disk and we have to be sure
that all the data are available. 
We are at this point thinking about backing up to tape and then copying
the data to the disk storage pool and maybe afterwards to another tape
copy pool. That way the backups will be available onsite and at the DR
site.

Hope this clears up things.

Regards

Marco Bezuidenhout

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Copy mode = Absolute

On Mar 18, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Marco Bezuidenhout wrote:

> We have been asked to do full backups this coming weekend to a
> different
> storage pool than normal. The data will then also be copied to a
> separate copy storage pool. This copied storage pool will be taken
> to an
> offsite location for restores. ...

There's something missing here:  What is it they are actually going
to do with these copy storage pool tapes at some other site?  They
can't be used without the TSM database - which is in the originating
location.

Tell us their fundamental requirement: what are they actually trying
to achieve in all this?

    Richard Sims
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