Re: Offsite tape challenge
We take the tapes out of the library and set the access to Offsite and the location to Vault. Access of Offsite prevents TSM from trying to mount the tape, and location is a free form text field, so we just call it Vault as the tapes our stored onsite in a Vault. Once a week we take tapes offsite, and bring tapes back. When tapes go offsite the location is changed to Offsite. We use Korn Shell scripts to handle all this, on AIX. If you'd like more information on how we do all this, let me know offline. Ray Baughman Engineering Systems Administrator TSM Administrator National Machinery LLC Phone 419-443-2257 Fax 419-443-2376 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Orin Rehorst Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Offsite tape challenge Worry...worry...worry...about disasters...terrorists...and recoveries. My bosses worry a lot, me likely not enough. Am storing copy pool offsite once a week. Box of tapes comes here, we update the copy pool, box goes back offsite. What about a daily? They don't want to bring the box back and forth every day...just place dailies in a building next door. But how might you manage that with TSM? Regards, Orin Orin Rehorst Port of Houston Authority (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (713)670-2443 Fax: (713)670-2457 TOPAS web site: www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html
Re: Offsite tape challenge
BTW: you are having an exposure with this bring-back + back-offsite. While the box is onsite you have no off-site copies and are vulnerable to disaster. TSM is made to handle off-site copies without any need to bring them on-site before new copy is send out. Look again through your procedures. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Orin Rehorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19.11.2002 23:21 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Offsite tape challenge Worry...worry...worry...about disasters...terrorists...and recoveries. My bosses worry a lot, me likely not enough. Am storing copy pool offsite once a week. Box of tapes comes here, we update the copy pool, box goes back offsite. What about a daily? They don't want to bring the box back and forth every day...just place dailies in a building next door. But how might you manage that with TSM? Regards, Orin Orin Rehorst Port of Houston Authority (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (713)670-2443 Fax: (713)670-2457 TOPAS web site: www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html
Re: Offsite tape challenge
I ship between 8 and 12 LTO tapes off-site every weekday morning. Once a week we generate a pull list of all off-site tapes in pending or empty status and have them (plust the oldest week's TSM database backups) brought back. This runs to about 40 tapes coming back. I do daily reclaims of some of the off-site tape pools; others are archive pools with a 21 day retention. These I just let die the death and come back after the 21 days. My courier is part of our help-desk staff (a former mainframe computer operator), so we don't need to do the 'sealed box' bit. And our off-site storage is the company hanger at the local airport, about 11 miles away. As of now, I show 95 tapes off-site; 19 are ready to come back (or serve as initial scratch pool at D/R). The process works. We've done a number of successful D/R tests and haven't run into missing/unavailable files in the last three years. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Offsite tape challenge Worry...worry...worry...about disasters...terrorists...and recoveries. My bosses worry a lot, me likely not enough. Am storing copy pool offsite once a week. Box of tapes comes here, we update the copy pool, box goes back offsite. What about a daily? They don't want to bring the box back and forth every day...just place dailies in a building next door. But how might you manage that with TSM? Regards, Orin Orin Rehorst Port of Houston Authority (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (713)670-2443 Fax: (713)670-2457 TOPAS web site: www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html
Offsite tape challenge
Worry...worry...worry...about disasters...terrorists...and recoveries. My bosses worry a lot, me likely not enough. Am storing copy pool offsite once a week. Box of tapes comes here, we update the copy pool, box goes back offsite. What about a daily? They don't want to bring the box back and forth every day...just place dailies in a building next door. But how might you manage that with TSM? Regards, Orin Orin Rehorst Port of Houston Authority (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (713)670-2443 Fax: (713)670-2457 TOPAS web site: www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html
Re: Offsite tape challenge
We have about 25 Cartridges that goes offsite on a daily basis David C. Pearson IS Production Support Analyst System Network Service Snohomish County PUD # 1 ...OLE_Obj... Phone: 425.347.4420 Pager: 425.290.0944 FAX: 425.267.6380 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Orin Rehorst [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Offsite tape challenge Worry...worry...worry...about disasters...terrorists...and recoveries. My bosses worry a lot, me likely not enough. Am storing copy pool offsite once a week. Box of tapes comes here, we update the copy pool, box goes back offsite. What about a daily? They don't want to bring the box back and forth every day...just place dailies in a building next door. But how might you manage that with TSM? Regards, Orin Orin Rehorst Port of Houston Authority (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (713)670-2443 Fax: (713)670-2457 TOPAS web site: www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html
Re: Offsite tape challenge
You can use scripts and DRM, or there is a product Autovault from http://www.coderelief.com that will manage all your copypool media. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 16:21, Orin Rehorst wrote: Worry...worry...worry...about disasters...terrorists...and recoveries. My bosses worry a lot, me likely not enough. Am storing copy pool offsite once a week. Box of tapes comes here, we update the copy pool, box goes back offsite. What about a daily? They don't want to bring the box back and forth every day...just place dailies in a building next door. But how might you manage that with TSM? Regards, Orin Orin Rehorst Port of Houston Authority (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (713)670-2443 Fax: (713)670-2457 TOPAS web site: www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html
