-- snip -- > >BTW: Even without clustering it is not necessary to move MVCs, since you can write VTVs on two MVCs in two ACSes (in two locations). >
Correct. We are looking at doing one of the two methods hopefully by the end of this year. Unfortunately at the moment we still work with PTAM (Pickup Truck Access Method). -- snip -- One of the considerations that needs to be looked at when writing tape to two locations is how it is done. The cheaper method is asynchronous, namely, the logical tape gets written to the physical backend media at some time 'in the near future'. If you don't need any synchronisation between DASD and Tape at your remote location, that's OK. Depending on how busy the VSM boxes are, the writing of the logical volume to the physical media could take a while (many hours). Ensure you carefully define your response time objectives and see if you can meet them. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
