Hi fellow *MSrs - I have a situation that I am trying to work out - we have approximately 250 servers each with anywhere from 6 gigs to 250 gigs. The situation is that we have implemented an offsite copy storage pool - that works fine. What we are looking to do now is to create long term storage on our nodes. I realize that there is the new thing called "Instant Archive" - but this is not automated as far as keeping track of which node went to which tape and when the tape could be brought back onsite - unless, there is someway to do it that I am not aware of - in addition, it does not appear to be very easy to retrieve the data. I know that there is the standard archiving, however, this must go out to the server. This is a problem since our window for backups is 10pm to 8am everyday including weekends. It would be difficult to do the backups and the archives during this time due to not wanting to bring down or slow down services. Therefore, I was just wondering what alternatives are there - or if anyone had any suggestions on how this could be implemented. For example, possibly there is a way to have a longer retention period on copy pools???? <That would be a nice feature - maybe it is available> Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks. Terry
