| >Hi,
>
>Customer require the possibility of dual backups.
>Actually they are doing dual backups (without any backup products, just
>executing another backup after the first of the same files.
>
>I would like to ask about the alternatives that can be offered when
>using ABS.
>
>I assume dual backup to two tape drives is a feature not yet
>supported by ABS. Is it?
>
>Would it be possible to have two simultaneous ABS save-requets running
>doing backup from same files to two different tape drives ? Appart from
>bottleneck reading disk files, would it be any problem about ABS configuration
>or catalogs ?
>
You can schedule multiple backups to be using different tape drives
with ABS. You set the maximum_saves to be at least 2, and then
create two save requests which will run at the same time. Each one
will select a tape drive and volume and run. If they were backing
up the same files, there may be conflicts on locked files.
If you are using the same catalog, then it can get backed, up, but
if you are using staging catalogs, then it can finish updating the
catalog after the backups complete.
>
>What about Save-set manager funcionality boundled into ABS ? When ?
>
There currently is not any SSM functionality built into ABS. We
are suggesting that you create an epilogue to your save request
which executes an SSM command if desired. If you have specific
requirements for using SSM with ABS, please send that information
to our product manager, Judy Cross (COOKIE::CROSS).
Chris
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