Harold, I'll keep this short as I guess direct sales pitches are frowned upon.
Take a look at OpenTech Systems VDR, it solves many of the problems you mention. It copies tape volumes at the file level and stacks them onto any tape media for use at the DR site. At the DR site you can update the TMC and catalogs to access the stacked tape directly or you can rebuild your volume sets to any other tape device or even restore tape to disk. You dont need any specific hardware at the DR site apart from a compatible tape unit. It is a very flexible solution. A copy of the tape stays in the primary VSM so this is not an export function. VDR can re-cycle offsite tape by recopying existing data from the VSM and appending new virtual volumes. OpenTech also has a product to manage your daily FDR/DFDSS volume dumps. This also works with VDR. Why have you decided to go completely tapeless? If the reason is security we can plug-in our CopyCrypt tape encryption. Please search for other postings for the word "VDR" to get some user opinions. Tony Sinfield, Systems Engineer. OpenTech Systems Ltd, UK. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/742 - Release Date: 01/04/2007 20:49 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
