On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:18 PM, W. Curtis Preston <wcplists1 AT gmail DOT 
com>wrote:

> Wanda,
>
> I read all the replies already, and the Gresham idea looks the most
> promising.
>
> You will be telling your customer that their "DR vendor" is retarded,
> right?


Been there, done that!
Hasn't sunk in yet.....


>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Wanda Prather
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:34 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Desperation, DR, and four TS3100 libraries...
>
> I'm drawing a blank here, any suggestions welcomed.
>
> I have a TSM customer who makes their copypool tapes using a TS3200 with
> LTO4 drives.
> The TS3200 is a rack-mounted, 2 drive, 40-mumble slot standard ASCII
> library.  No issues.
> One copy pool, tapes vaulted and sent offsite.
>
> They want to go to a commercial DR vendor site and do a DR test next week.
> The commercial DR vendor, unbelievably, has no multi-drive LTO4-capable
> libraries.
>
> Instead, they want us to use 4 (count 'em, four) TS3100 libraries.
> The TS3100 is a rack-mounted, 1 drive, 20-mumble slot standard ASCII
> library.
>
> There's only 1 copy pool, so all tapes were created on the same device
> class.
> Ignoring the which-carts-would-go-in-which-library issue, I can't have a
> device class pointing to 4 libraries.
>
> And, the TS3100 is built in such a way that unlike a TS3500, you can't open
> the doors and access the drives for manual mounting.
> (I'd be happy to pull the covers off and try it, ignoring any warranties I
> might void, but I doubt the vendor will let me attack the thing with a
> screwdriver/wrench/hacksaw.)
>
> If I put all the carts in one TS3100 that will work, but that leaves me
> only
> 1 drive to restore all the clients, and they won't likely get done in the
> desired time window.
>
> The only thing I can think of to use all 4 drives, is to define those four
> TS3100's as 1 manual library with 4 manual drives, and use the front panel
> of each TS3100 to move tapes from the I/O slot to the drive when TSM
> requests a mount.
>
> (Actually the FIRST thing I thought of, was "cancel the DR contract, this
> is
> nonsense".  But my customer isn't convinced yet...)
>
> Anybody got a better solution?
> I've already tried a margarita, it didn't help....
>
> W
>