From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >I have a new tapepool that I only use for a couple of nodes >that is using >colocation. Can I change the status of a tape that is in that pool to >readonly so I can remove it, even though it is not full? Will >TSM then grab >a new tape to use, or will it complain because the "not full" >tape is not >available and the backup fail? > >If so then I can rotate these tapes by marking them readonly >and readwrite >weekly since I am only doing a weekly backup for this special >node. Not that >hard to test out, but I thought I may get an answer faster >through you guys.
You could do that. You could also run a regular nightly backup (no collocation) of the node, and then run a weekly backupset of the node. That gives you a collocated weekly "snapshot" of the entire client. There is no tape volume access flipping to be remembered, and you don't have to have a special storage pool for just those 2 or 3 clients. Backupsets' expiration periods are easy to set, so you can get rid of those you don't need anymore. -- Mark Stapleton