Multiple Guested LPARS Backup Approach

Hi All


just wondered how people were approaching the challenge of backing up
multiple guest LPARs when hosted on i.

I have a scenario where there are a few i on i partitions using BRMS as a
backup solution with a couple of single tape drives. I'm currently
exploring what options there are for backup were there more partitions, say
6 to 8 on the same machine. Clearly having multiple single tape drives
becomes "challenging", especially as BRMS won't append tapes saved on
another system.

One option is to get an autoloading drive and share it round (none of the
partitions are huge), another would be to get a library with a number of
drives.Virtual tape might even be an option though I've struggled to see
how this would solve any problems other than timing issues at the expese of
addign more storage.

I'm curious as to what others are doing and what drawbacks/advantages they
believe go with the approach they are using.

Any comments or advice welcome.