Well, instead of having them run the archive twice, you can just create multiple copy pools. Send one offsite, keep the other onsite.
But here is another solution: If your data base logs are going to a disk pool, run your backup stgpool from your DISKPOOL to create the copy pool tape. Backup stgpool diskpool tapecopypool To make that work, you have to manage when migration runs, so that you know that you can get the offsite tape created BEFORE the data ever migrates off disk. That guarantees you never run into the "can't make an offsite copy due to a tape problem" issue. (Been there dealt with that before!) And a nice side effect is that your copy pool tapes take only a fraction of the tape mounts to create! -----Original Message----- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dual copy of files Hello! I have a user that wants 2 copies of their database logs on 2 different tapes (the onsite tape storage pool is collocated). They thought that by archiving the file twice several days apart that it would be on different tapes (just in case a tape went bad or it never made an offsite copy due to a tape problem). Is there a parameter or a certain file configuration that would allow the user to have 2 copies of the same logs on different tapes? As of now the only way I can think to do this is to create another onsite tape storage pool and have them archive their data to both pools. Is there a better way? Thanks! Joni Moyer Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338
