Prather, We don't have any DB backups older than 7 days. They are only used for DR purposes. I wish it was that simple.
Regards, David Smith AIX Administrator Corporate Express Australia 67-77 Epsom Rd Sydney NSW PH 02 93350318 or 0412 258 208 -----Original Message----- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 5 March 2002 1:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Adsmtape and TSM 4.1 Do you have a backup of your DB that is old enough to still have entries for the archives? If so, DON"T LET THAT DB BACKUP EXPIRE! I would try shutting down TSM, restoring the old DB, and doing an EXPORT of that archive data. Then I would restore the DB back to current, and IMPORT the archive data again, specifying DATE=RELATIVE and a new policy domain with different retention periods. I"m pretty sure that will work for backups, I've never tried it for archives. What do you think, gang? Would that work? -----Original Message----- From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 6:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Adsmtape and TSM 4.1 I've noted the existance of the adsmtape program and I really need a version that will work for TSM 4.1 on AIX. Here's a mail I posted on sourceforge in the adsmtape discussion: Hi, I've inherited a problem where some monthly archive data was tagged for 5 week retention rather than 7 years. Fortunately, this only affects 20% of the montly archive. Each archive resides on one DLT4 tape so my offsite tapes still contain the data even though the TSM database has expired the entries for it. I know the tapes, I know the files, there are no spanned files and the important files are too big to be aggregated. Tivoli wants $US85k+ to give me a salvage solution. Is there any chance of a version of adsmtape that will allow me to get my data back? If anyone out there can give some advice it would be very much appreciated. Regards, David Smith AIX Administrator Corporate Express Australia 67-77 Epsom Rd Sydney NSW PH 02 93350318 or 0412 258 208
