We take the tapes out of the library and set the access to Offsite and the location to "Vault". Access of Offsite prevents TSM from trying to mount the tape, and location is a free form text field, so we just call it Vault as the tapes our stored onsite in a Vault. Once a week we take tapes offsite, and bring tapes back. When tapes go offsite the location is changed to "Offsite". We use Korn Shell scripts to handle all this, on AIX. If you'd like more information on how we do all this, let me know offline.
Ray Baughman Engineering Systems Administrator TSM Administrator National Machinery LLC Phone 419-443-2257 Fax 419-443-2376 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Orin Rehorst > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Offsite tape challenge > > > Worry...worry...worry...about disasters...terrorists...and recoveries. My > bosses worry a lot, me likely not enough. > > Am storing copy pool offsite once a week. Box of tapes comes > here, we update > the copy pool, box goes back offsite. > > What about a daily? They don't want to bring the box back and forth every > day...just place "dailies" in a building next door. But how might > you manage > that with TSM? > > > > Regards, > Orin > > Orin Rehorst > Port of Houston Authority > (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: (713)670-2443 > Fax: (713)670-2457 > TOPAS web site: <www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html> >
