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The STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Products Manual contains statements such as:
As part of your disaster recovery plan, create a duplicate library in a
safe, offsite location.
and
Create a duplicate set of backups to keep at a suitable off site storage
facility.

As I understand this, HP is saying to make the backups, then copy them, and
send the copies off site, while retaining the originals on site. Who does
this? And how do you do this? What utility do you use or by what means do
you make these copies?

I would have thought that such statements by our system vendor would have
pulled more weight with certain "decision makers" (insert your own Dilbert
definition here for those with fiscal authority but removed from the
business function and technical consequences of their decisions), but what I
learned is that I am pretty naive that way. I am told that ALL of our tapes
are sent off site every morning; I do know that our STORE tapes are. We've
been very fortunate not to need quick turn around on the few restore
requests we have experienced.

And one of the arguments we had here was that someone in this loop insisted
that whatever we used to copy our tapes had to be supported by someone,
preferably HP. HP first had us look at STORCOPY, which didn't quite do what
we needed, and then they pointed us to SLTCOPY, which met our needs.

On a completely unrelated note, I see that "off site", like bytestream, can
be one word or a compound word, at least in the documentation. I bet if I
searched, I could find it hyphenated as well.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
I stomp on your sour grapes!