This is a follow up to a post I sent through the other day about problems with offsite tapes we were having and TSM (for NT) not allowing anymore tapes to be loaded into the library.
I've been reading the TSM Admin Guide today about DRM and copy storage pools and I think have found the solution to ours problems, however I would like to run it by some more knowledgable people. First I'll give a quick overview how our archives are currently working, I should also mention that these are really 'snapshots' of existing data on our servers and not actually removing any data from their locations. Once a month we have a scheduled job execute on our Tivoli server which runs the command "dsmc archive....etc" on each of our servers. As the server backs up the data to the Tivoli server it is temporarily stored in a disk storage pool (ARCHIVE) on our SAN, then as this disk storage pool fills up the data starts to automatically migrate across to another storage pool of type sequential access (called TAPEARCH). The next morning a scheduled job runs which migrates the remaining data held within the disk storage pool across to the sequential access storage pool, or some LTO tapes as it were. We were then checking the tapes out that belonged to this sequential access storage pool, which as it turn out is also a primary storage pool. Reading through DRM it will only recognise media (data) associated with copy storage pools, so my line of thought now is that I need to somehow convert the sequential access storage pool (TAPEARCH) from a primary pool to a copy pool. My problem now is is that we don't want to retain any copies of this archive data in our Tivoli library, if I am understanding correctly how copy storage pools work, we only want to refer to these tapes for the data stored if ever these was the need restore from them. Is there a way to configure TSM so we can move the data to a copy storage pool to use with DRM without having to also retain copies of this same data within the library system on another bunch of LTO tapes? Gordon Woodward Senior Support Analyst Deustche Asset Management (Australia) Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
