Are you stating that you would be duplicating the tapes in a manner completely unknown to TSM? If so a couple of potential issues are:
1) If one of your primary pool tapes becomes unreadable, you would be unable to have TSM do a "RESTORE VOLUME". 2) When TSM reclaims one of your primary pool tapes how will you know which duplicate tape to return onsite? H. Milton Johnson -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Browne Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Eliminating copy storage pool Our Storage Administrator asked if we could do away with our offsite copy storage pool. They would duplex our current onsite backups on a VTS, the backend 9840 tapes would be sent offsite, eliminating the need for TSM's copy--storage-pool processing. Has anyone done this before or have any thoughts on that? The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information.
