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Workspace Tape - High End Virtualization
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 20, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

TS7700 Allow customer to generate duplicate copies of Copy Export tape

There are two asks with this request:
(1) Customer would like the capability to generate duplicate Copy
Export tapes. In a recent DR test event, customer discovered one of the Copy Export tapes was missing. As a result, they had to reschedule the "event" that was being tested. A second set of tapes
would have avoided this rescheduling.

2) The second ask from the customer, they would like to be able to
use EXPORT/ COPY volume set “A” but, if there is a problem with a
PVOL that makes up the “A” volume set of EXPORT/ COPY tapes
then they want the TS7700 to automatically pull in the appropriate
PVOL from “B” volume set. They do not want to have to start over
with the imports in the middle of a recovery.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 1, 2017

    Users may create multiple copies of a copy export set by generating a copy export set on more than one cluster in the grid.

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