Instead of going to all that hassle, try Autovault.

It is a VERY INEXPENSIVE replacement for DRM that will vault primary pools
as well as copy pools if you tell it to.

You can download a trial at www.coderelief.com.
Very easy to install, provides everything that DRM does except the
server-to-server license.
No hooks into TSM, can't hurt your server.  Great technical support.

We found it CHEAPER to replace DRM with Autovault than to write and maintain
the front end automation scripts the we needed to have our operators
automatically run vaulting without having to be TSM admins.

It also handles some other issues better than DRM does, contact me if you
want more information.
And no, I don't sell the software.
I have just found it to be a better value and more bulletproof than DRM for
my sites.

Wanda Prather
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
443-778-8769

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Dilbert/Scott Adams


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ferraretto [mailto:mark.ferraretto AT DB DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:17 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Policy Domain Question


Bill,

I wanted exactly the same thing.  Unfortunately, implementing it is quite
difficult in TSM.

* You need to archive to a primary storage pool
* then you need to checkout the tapes from that storage pool manually and
send them offsite.  You can't use DRM to keep track of the volumes as DRM
only works for copy pools and db backups
* You need to manually work out which tapes are required for reclamation
(see the query below) and manually request those tapes back onsite for
reclamation as necessary

In the end I gave up on this and I did the following:
* I created a second TSM instance on our TSM server for managing archive
data only
* I use virtual volumes so the 2nd instance stores its data on the main
instance which has sole control of the tape library
* Instead of archiving data, I use incremental backups on the 2nd instance.
I use a different management class on the 2nd instance (1 year instead of 1
month)
* because I'm using incremental backups to perform 'archiving' only about
20% of data changes each month and so the 2nd instance uses much less space
that doing a regular monthly archive
* because the space used is so much less (over a year it's about 400% less)
I've created a copy pool for my archive data as well.  I can afford to
'waste' the extra tapes and I get quite a few advantages namely:
* I can manage the 2nd instance copy pool the same way as I manage the main
copy pool
* DRM takes care of onsite and offsite tapes
* You can do offsite reclamation - just like a regular copy pool
* The operators don't need to learn any new procedures for managing the
archive tapes
* The archive data is always onsite which makes for easier restoring

Finally, here's the query I mentioned above:

tsm: SM040>q scr q_reclaim_preview f=r
/* Script comment */
/* List volumes in stgpool $1 to be reclaimed  */
/* if threshold was set to $2%                 */
/* ============================================*/
/* Script Name: Q_RECLAIM_PREVIEW              */
/* Author:      Mark Ferraretto                */
/* Parameter:   storage_pool, threshold        */
/* Example:     run Q_RECLAIM_PREVIEW C3 50    */
/* ============================================*/
select -
        VOLUME_NAME as "$1 pool at $2% reclamation" -
        from VOLUMES -
        where STGPOOL_NAME = upper('$1') -
        and PCT_RECLAIM >= $2 -
        order by VOLUME_NAME


--
Mark Ferraretto
Unix Systems Administrator
Deutsche Bank Hong Kong
w: +852 2203 6362        m: +852 9558 8032        f: +852 2203 6971
mark.ferraretto AT db DOT com



                      Bill_Rosette@PAPA
                      JOHNS.COM                To:
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                      Sent by:                 cc:
                      [email protected].        Subject:  Re: Policy Domain
Question
                      EDU


                      08/06/03 10:13 PM
                      Please respond to
                      ADSM-L






I am wanting to set up new Policy Domains, with respective Management
classes, and respective Backup and Archive Copy Groups.  I want my Archives
to go straight to offsite and not be onsite.  Anybody got ideas and how to
do it?

Thank You,
Bill Rosette
Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International
WWJD





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