Many installations require some type of facility for the storage of critical tape data sets at a location other than the tape library. The storage unit can be a fireproof vault at the installation, or a location other than the computer site. The off-site storage facility enables you to protect valuable data in case of fire or disaster.
CA 1® Tape Management includes a Vault Management System (VMS) to automatically control, rotate, assign vault slot numbers, and report on vaulted (off-site storage) tape data sets. Execute the utilities that make up the CA 1® Tape Management Vault Management System as often as necessary to meet your site's guidelines for transferring tapes to off-site storage. Execute VMS only after all data sets to be moved have been created. For a discussion of VMS see the section Using the Vault Management System (VMS).
If you incorporate the VMS utilities (TMSVMEDT, TMSVMVLT, and TMSVMUPD) in your normal CA 1® Tape Management daily maintenance cycle, execute the utilities after TMSCLEAN has finished scratch processing. Expired tapes in the vault do not appear prematurely on the Scratch and Clean Listing before they have been physically returned to the tape library.
Run TMSCOPY before the VMS utilities, then move the alternate backup of the TMC (created by TMSCOPY) to the off-site location with your other data sets. (Provide the Vault Management System with the data set name of the alternate backup.)
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