On 20 mrt 2009, at 15:39, Nick Laflamme wrote:

My heart leapt when my RSS reader presented me an article in the TSM
udpates feed from IBM with the heading, "Keeping more than one TSM
server database backup on a tape." As I'm implementing a new server
using 3592 drives, I haven't been happy with my options for this
particular issue. Maybe, I thought, I was about to learn something of
immediate use and high value!

My heart sank when I read the actual article, which might be
paraphrased as, "Sorry, Charlie, too risky."

Back to asking for some LTO drives just for small, inexpensive tapes
for DB backups.

I had a discussion with IBM development on this subject just a few
months ago in the context of the TSM 6.1 beta program. That person at
that time agreed with me that given current tape capacities, having
multiple db backups on one tape might make sense. This doesn't mean
that this is in 6.1 or even on the roadmap, but it does mean that the
door isn't completely closed either. We'll probably only find out if
IBM decides to follow up on the suggestion....

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Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards,

Remco Post
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