Ya I thought about that too but there is a potential media management nightmare lurking here.. suppose you have a few of these "critical clients" that you do this to. How often do you create backupsets? Daily? Are you then going to ship a complete set of tapes offsite and bring the old ones onsite daily (thus emulating having 1 copy of 'active' data offsite daily)? There are potential costs lurking here in how often you have the offsite vault bring tapes back I would guess..
Also you end up with 1 tape or set of tapes per server. So if you have an LTO tape that holds 100GB native and your "critical client" only has 3GB of OS data stored on it, your not using the total capacity of the tape. Though you may or may not care that you're wasting space this way.. The number of tapes you ultimately use for this system may be more then simply moving all data offsite (if you're trying to save on the # of tapes you have to ship offsite). All in all it might be a solution though it's not very eloquent and whether it does what you're ultimately trying to accomplish is questionable (i.e. saving on # of tapes you have to ship offsite?) Gerald Wichmann Sr. Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 w 408.836.9062 c -----Original Message----- From: Nici Albrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: copy pools question? Rob, You can do a "generate backupset" for the critical clients that you want to get active file copies for. This will copy active copies of files in primary storage pools. This backupset is self-describing, you can restore directly to the client whether or not the server is available, without having to transfer data across the network. Nici Albrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ MDR Consulting & Education TSM Certified AIX Certified ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Rob Schroeder wrote: > I want to create a set of backup tapes for disaster recovery that would > only have the most recent versions of my files, I do not want all the extra > versions. I thought I needed to do a "move data" but it looks like that > will copy all my versions. > > Can anyone help? > > Rob Schroeder > Famous Footwear > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
