ITSM has announced a special version of tsm to meet regulatory needs. I forget the exact details, I think there is an extra charge.
A query license output includes these 2 lines - Is Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention in use ?: No Is Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention licensed ?: No Hope this helps, Bill Colwell At 11:50 AM 12/1/2004, you wrote: >On Dec 1, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Prather, Wanda wrote: > >>Mark's right, there is no GOOD way to do this. >>You can't create an "archive" with data that is already on TSM tapes, >>except as a backupset, which can be a pain to track and can't be >>browsed. ... > >I'll also add that the lack of a simple way to preserve data, as when >a sudden regulatory or emergency requirement arises, is an, um, >"opportunity for a product feature" (rather than a shortcoming :-). > >A further complication in the poster's need is the ability to capture >Inactive files, which a Backupset can't do. > >A partial, but perhaps satisfactory, measure might be to temporarily >create a "preservation" file system (name appropriately), perform a >-latest restoral of the subject directory into it, and perform a TSM >Archive on that, whereafter the file system can be disposed of. This >will at least capture all of the object names which are and have been >in that directory, in their most recent versions. > > Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts > > "Think different." -- Apple ---------- Bill Colwell C. S. Draper Lab Cambridge Ma.