However, all inactive versions will still expire due to mgmtclass retention
or domain grace period.  If you only wat active data retained, then that's
fine, but if you want to retain everything as exists at this moment,
including inactive files, you might consider doing an EXPORT NODE
FILEDATA=ALL.

Alex Paschal
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Sims [mailto:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:53 AM

>Here's a quick question for you. I have some tape volumes in our 3494 tape
>library that contain data for clients that no longer exist. I want to
remove
>these tape volumes from our library to free up some space, but keep the
volumes
>just in case.
>
>Now, the problem is that I no longer want them to be included in the
>TAPEPOOL reclamation process. Is there a way to stop these volumes being
>reclaimed or called up for reclamation?

Farren -

I think it would be healthiest to get deadwood out of your viable clients
population.  Create a DEFUNCT-CLIENTS storage pool, to remain fallow, and do
a
Move Data to transfer the tape-bound defunct clients data into it.  You may
or
may not want to have the new stgpool collocated by node: I would tend to,
which
would ease management, but consider the tape costs.

  Richard Sims, BU