> -----Original Message----- > From: Anoop Das [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi all > I have two TSM servers connected to LTO 3583 located 300 KMs apart and the > dbabckup for the same happens locally. I then send the dbbackups to > offsite( Site-A to Site-B and viceversa) on a daily basis. > Is it possible to take the dbbackup of server-A to the site-B drive and > server-B to the site-A LTO drive? This will relieve me of the manual > activity of sending the dbbackup tapes taken locally to offsite daily. Also > being a scheduled activity there is no chance for failures. I'm doing server-to-server backups for my DB backups now: I've found several substantial advantages to it: - You can get more than one backup on a tape volume (increasingly important: my 3592 drives store about 1.4TB of compressed TSM DB) - You can make copies of your main line of backups, instead of making a primary and some snapshots. Consider: if you deploy a second TSM server on the same hardware at each site, and then trade off copies, you'll get the best of both worlds: Fast local creation of the backup, and diverse storage of the data in remote locations. It's not too complex to deploy multiple server instances on the same hardware. There's a little management overhead, and you'll be playing with shared libraries, but the benefits are substantial. - Allen S. Rout
