>>I am not sure if collocating a copy pool is beneficial. It seems like the copy pool as a disaster recovery pool would be ideal to collocate, but if you send off tapes every day you end up with a fragmented set of tapes for each collocation unit anyway. To clean that up would require bringing offsite tapes back onsite, exposing you to risk. It is possible to do a Move Nodedata in a copy pool, but the tapes have to be onsite. Perhaps there are better ways. <<
Collocating a copy pool is VERY beneficial, if you can afford it (and I might argue, you can't afford not to). You CAN reclaim a offsite copy pool; TSM uses onsite primary pool tapes to recreate the copy pool tapes that are being reclaimed. Collocating a copy pool does mean more tapes, more offsite tape movement, and more reclamation. But if the purpose of your copy pool is to allow you to continue business after a disaster, then you most likely will be under pressure to restore as quckly as possible and a collocated copy pool will certainly make those restores run faster. David Ehresman University of Louisville
