We had a request that sounds similar from our legal department. We collocated the data in a copy pool, then we took those copy tapes and a backup of the DB and stuck it in the vault. Because ours is small we left the tapes in the live TSM DB, but you could delete them from the live DB. If the data is ever needed "simply" restore TSM from tape and restore the data.
Andy Huebner -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving tapes offsite But, if it isn't in the database or a transportable format (export of backupset), you won't be able to restore from the tapes. No, it doesn't delete the data/tapes physically - just removed the DB info. Zoltan Forray TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services [email protected] - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html From: Jim Davis <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 09/16/2011 03:41 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving tapes offsite Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> On 9/16/2011 10:13 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: > Could you generate a backupset for them on new tape, and then delete > their data from storage pools when it's done? That way TSM doesn't have > to track it at all. Thanks, though with 20+ tapes of their data... I suspect there's an easier way I'd overlooked: checkout the volumes, hand the tapes over, then destroy the volumes with discarddata=yes. On my first quick pass through TFM I'd thought the discarddata=yes would try to physically erase the tape, but it looks like it just removes the database entries for the backed-up data, which is fine. -- Jim Davis Biotechnology Computing Facility Arizona Research Labs This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
