In answer to your question, there are plenty of "things to be done", depending
upon factors such as:
- what tape management system do you have? Will the new technology share the
scratch volser range or will a new one be used?
- will the migration be performed volume-by-volume ('cloning') or
dataset-by-dataset (copy)?
- do applications maintain their own tape metadata repositories outside of the
tape management system (CA-View, HSM, others)?
- how many drives/how much time will be available for the migration as opposed
to production work?
- are the source/target volumes going to be SMS managed or will UNIT esoterics
be used?
- how many datasets and how much data needs to be migrated vs how much can
'naturally' expire or roll off? What's the target date?
- who's going to perform the migration tasks? Contractors? Vendors? In-house
staff?
There are lots of issues to consider. You might want to have a look at some of
the Share proceedings on this topic. I've done a few of these in the past both
as general education and in conjunction with our tape migration software (see
Share Sessions such as 11020 and 14361, among many others).
Steve Pryor
DTS Software, Inc.
1.919.833.8426 x162
[email protected]
www.dtssoftware.com
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