> locally.  You could also do as others have recommended recommend, as do
> I - backup locally and ship copy media offsite with the TSM server DB
> backup both locally and to the remote site using virtual volumes.

This is absolutely correct, especially ifyour datacenters are DR sites
for each other.  We made the mistake of doing offsite only backups.
That is, backed up servers from datacenter A to datacenter B, where
datacenter B contained both primary and copy pool.  The problem is
that the loss of datacenter B caused all backups to be lost.  We have
since moved to the classic backup locally (primary pool) with a offsite
copy pool.

Rick

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