On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:28, Othonas Xixis wrote: > Does anyone know of a way or a company where the TSM DB or Data Tapes can > be duplicated (in a hardware level) ? > > I do understand the duplication methods within TSM and I am not interested > at this time because I can't use them. > We are in a real disaster recovery situation, not where we lost the TSM > server, but where we lost portions of the data on the tapes, and now we > have legal requirements that we need to fulfill.
You *could* use AIX's tcopy to duplicate a tape, but I wouldn't recommend it, and wouldn't do it for a customer. If you've lost your data, you've lost it; duplicating the tape won't haul it back. I realize that this is probably a case of closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out, but your situation is why the concept of offsite tape pools was created. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
