At 1:45 PM -0400 7/21/00, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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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?
...
>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.


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Allegro Consultants has a commercial product called XOVER (pronounced
"Crossover") which understands a variety of tape formats (SLT, STORE,
FCOPY, etc.), and a variety of media (1600bpi reel, DDS, DLT, etc.). It can
make duplicate copies of your SLT's and/or backup sets for offsite storage.
It can also covert from one media to another. For example, it can convert a
multi-reel backup to a single DDS, or a multi-DDS backup to a single DLT.

Please see http://www.allegro.com/products/ for a bit more information.

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Barry Lake                                 [log in to unmask]
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