Re: Running a Backup to Concurrent Tapes

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One option is to do the backup, then when complete use DUPTAP to create
another set of tapes after the system is back up.
 - Larry

"Law, Tom" wrote:
> 
> Management wants us to send copies of our daily and weekly  backup tapes to
> a Storage Vendor located next to our Disaster Recovery Center in Chicago.  I
> have a problem with this as we are a lights out operation and I do not want
> to manually DUP the tapes.  We have to do this for 7 AS400's. Two at 3.2 and
> 5 at 4.4 all using different tape media (3590, 3570, 3490).
> 
> What I would like to do is output to 2 tapes concurrently for each Backup.
> We could do this on the Mainframe but I can not find a way to do this on an
> AS/400.  Does anyone know of a way?
> 
> Note:
> We are a 24 x 7 shop.
> The backup window is very small and I can not run a backup twice.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
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