Seems to me that you could run archives to a separate pool, and have a
copypool
associated with that, but not have a copypool associated with your
mainstream
data i.e. there is no requirement to have any copypools at all so just copy
offsite what is "required".

Another possibility, if you have a lot of frequently changing data, might be
to
backup your storagepool only say once per week, immediately after expiration
has
run.

I'm not really advocating either of these: there are obvious consequences in
the
case of a media failure for example, but if you have to keep the
powers-that-be
happy....(until the first time you get a tape error of course <G>)


HTH

Steve.

AIX/ADSM/Oracle Guy
The Wesley Hospital

Brisbane Australia