Mark, Possibly one of the least intrusive ways of actually doing this would be to define a new copypool, say "SNAPSHOT_2004", and backup all your storagepools into that storagepool. If you start this at the beginning of November, you can probably do each primary pool one at a time. Then just do incremental backup storagepools (incrementally) until you reach your 12/31/2004 date, then do a backup database, and ship the dbbackup and the entire copypool to wherever you want. I'd personally then delete all those volumes and the stgpool from the database.
However, please pay attention to Richard Sim's points. This is actually only a last resort of "malicious compliance." <Grin> So, in your "ship offsite" package, you may want to include a server, OS install media, and TSM install media, various drivers, etc. Oh, and a tape drive. Someone else mentioned conversion to ASCII. I think this is a much better way to go, but I've never been able to get it to fly with Management. Hmm... Maybe paper. Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -----Original Message----- From: Mark Ferraretto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Taking an end-of-year snapshot All, We are running TSM 5.1.6.1 on AIX 5.1 What I want to do is to take an snapshot of our TSM data as it was at end of year 1/1/04 and archive it away for 10 years. Is this possible? I haven't found a way of doing it. We need to make an end-of-year archive each year for legal etc purposes. Running an archive of everything on one day doesn't seem practical - too much data coming into the server. But snapshotting the existing backup data would be ideal. I was thinking that I could generate a backup set and backdate the snapshot the backup set would take but there doesn't seem to be an option to do this. Does anyone know how this can be done? Thanks Mark -- Mark Ferraretto Unix Systems Administrator - Unix support hotline: +852 2203 6369 Deutsche Bank Hong Kong w: +852 2203 6362 m: +852 9558 8032 f: +852 2203 6971 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
