Thanks for the reply Paul, strangely enough your original reply never reached me through the mailing list. From the information you have given me it looks like we are in a bit of difficulty as Tivoli Storage Management was originaly sold to us under the premise that it would be able to do this easily with minimum fuss.
Our business requirements for storing data offsite are slightly different due to legal responsibilities which require us to keep historical data for at least 7 years. Hence our need to not keep a copy of this archival within our LTO Library. I can't imagine the sort of problems we would encounter if we did do this. I'll read through yours and Dale's solutions again and see if what your suggesting will be feasible for us to do. I like the overflow idea which would be a simple thing to implement, not sure what would happen with partially filled tapes however, I assume they will need to be manually moved after each monthly archival is completed. Gordon -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
