You should keep ALL of your copypool tapes offsite. You should keep TSM db backup tapes offsite to match your 'del volhist'. You should set your reuse delay for your offsite copy storage pool to match the length of time you keep your tsm db backups, in your case 10 days. This last requirement of good DR is why most folks only keep a small number of TSM DB backups. We have reuse delay and DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS set to 5 days.
David Ehresman University of Louisville >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/11/2006 12:49:01 AM >>> I sent this query a week ago but have not received a reply back. I am resending in the hope that someone can offer some advice. We have TSM version 5.2 I have changed the standard policy so that we now keep the 10 latest versions of each file rather than 7. I have also changed our del volhist to tod=today-10 where it was previously 7. I have been told that previously we had to keep the 7 latest copy tapes and db tapes offsite for DRP to ensure that we could recover complete servers. With the changes that I have made does this mean that we have to now keep the 10 latest tapes offsite for complete DRP? Paul Dudley ANL IT Operations Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANL DISCLAIMER This e-mail and any file attached is confidential, and intended solely to the named addressees. Any unauthorised dissemination or use is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail from your system. Please do not copy, use or make reference to it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any person.
