At DR you may need to do a DISCONNECT on your VCAT catalog. We ran into a problem where at DR (same as your setup) we kept getting a message about a Library and we did not have one. The DISCONNECT of the VCAT corrected that issue.
Lizette > T. M. Ioia Wrote: > > We just recently started using a 3494 ATL with 3592 drives in our data > center. We are also creating our DR tapes using the tape library and > ejecting > the tapes to send to off-site storage. > > At our DR site, we do not have a 3494 ATL tape library but we have > stand- > alone 3592 drives. > > I'm having trouble deciding how to best set up our DR recovery process. > > Can I maintain the same addresses, for example 600-603 and just change > the > LIBRARY YES to LIBRARY NO and MTL NO to MTL YES in the device > definitions > using HCD? > > I have a feeling I'm going to run into trouble with SMS by doing this. > Do I > have to create a new MTL definition, storage classes, storage groups, > etc. > > Initially, we just want to restore the system at the DR site using the > 3592 > tape drives. Longer term, as we utilize the 3494 more and more, we > will want > to be able to run jobs that think they have a tape library available. > > Ideally and conceptually, what I would like to do, is operate in ATL > mode at > our data center and in MTL mode at the DR site, with the least amount > of > reconfiguration as possible. > > I have no way of testing this before going to the DR site. All of our > 3592 > drives are in the 3494, no standalone drives. I thought I could define > one of > the 3592 as part of an MTL, but it wouldn't let me bring it on-line > because the > system knows that it is inside the ATL > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
