Dwight's situation is fairly unique, I think. Having the tape library offsite saves the big step of getting the data offsite, which is a requirement for Disaster Recovery (And Dwight - I'm jealous. Must be nice to have some free cycles on the tape drives!). The rest of us, with our libraries onsite, have to make a copy of the data to send offsite, or send all original copies of data offsite, and deal with the inability to respond to a restore request (and be unable to reclaim tapes, plus face other issues). So most of us make copies. Then we have to move those copies offsite, and manage them there. That's where the DRM tool comes into play - it handles a lot of that work for you. If you know TSM like some on the list here do, you can get away with not using DRM yet still have a Disaster Recovery plan. However, if you're a novice TSM user, or have to split your attention between TSM and other areas, then DRM may be just what you need to make things work. In the backup/recovery business, the bottom line is to be able to recovery your customer's data. Anything short of that is usually not acceptable.
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