I've searched carefully, but maybe I've failed to come up with good search strings, so in case anybody knows of some non-intuitive options, or maybe even a small third-party interface through the API... I've got data sets that I need to retain for 53 weeks as complete copies. They're copies of informix databases - about 1GB per copy. gzip significantly beats TSM compression, and I could cut the number of objects to keep in the database by 389%, but I can't count on having room for a tempfile I'd like do something like this:
tar -cf - carma.dbs |gzip -9|dsmc ar $PLANT.`date +%Y%m%d$H`.db.tar.gz -filehandle=0 -archmc=plant_53week Instead of this: tar -cf - carma.dbs |gzip -9>$PLANT.`date +%Y%m%d$H`.db.tar.gz;dsmc ar $PLANT.`date +%Y%m%d$H`.db.tar.gz -archmc=plant_53week -filesonly -deletefiles I figure I'm just smoking crack, but might as well ask. 73, Tim Conway sysadmin, TSM admin Swift & Company 9705067998
