Wanda's comment: brilliant! I've often advocated that saving stuff you have not reasonable hope of actually being able to use is foolish. One might as well send blank tapes to the vault and spare the read/write head wear and tear from sending tape into a drive.
I've also gotta think that there are an equal number of folks in the organization that DON'T want to see stuff hang around for 10 years. Find some of those folks and get some help heading this bad idea off at the pass. Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 www.storserver.com -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Retain All Existing TSM Backup / Archive Data for 10Yrs Not necessary. You can't rebind a file that has been archived to a different management class, but if you change the RULE the file is bound to (i.e., the archive copy group retention setting), that change does indeed take effect, and will do what you ask. That said, here's my plug for content management: Will anybody be able to FIND anything in these archives 10 years from now? With TSM archiving, all you have to look at is file names. If your mgmt wants to be able to locate any INFORMATION 10 years from now, some sort of content management application is usually more appropriate. You get some indexing and some organization and some search capabilities for the data, not just the host name and filenames for client nodes that no longer exist... W On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Hart, Charles A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, we have a requirements to retain all Backup / Archive data that > exists in our TSM environment today for 10 years. There's a few "ugly" > options, but would it be possible to do the following? > > Export node from Existing TSM servers to New TSM Server with Archive And > Backup Copy Groups set to 10 years retention. I know that just > increasing the Archive Copy group on the existing TSM Server's Archives > to 10YR will not re-bind those Archive objects, but what if you export a > node to a new TSM server with Longer retention Archive Copy Groups will > the Archives bind to the new Archive Copy groups on the new TSM server? > (I'm hoping so) > > Appreciate the input! > > > This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or > proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to > which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended > recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified > that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the > sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. >
