I ship between 8 and 12 LTO tapes off-site every weekday morning. Once a week we generate a pull list of all off-site tapes in pending or empty status and have them (plust the oldest week's TSM database backups) brought back. This runs to about 40 tapes coming back.
I do daily reclaims of some of the off-site tape pools; others are archive pools with a 21 day retention. These I just let die the death and come back after the 21 days. My courier is part of our help-desk staff (a former mainframe computer operator), so we don't need to do the 'sealed box' bit. And our off-site storage is the company hanger at the local airport, about 11 miles away. As of now, I show 95 tapes off-site; 19 are ready to come back (or serve as initial scratch pool at D/R). The process works. We've done a number of successful D/R tests and haven't run into missing/unavailable files in the last three years. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc > -----Original Message----- > From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > 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> >
