Mark,

Possibly one of the least intrusive ways of actually doing this would be to
define a new copypool, say "SNAPSHOT_2004", and backup all your storagepools
into that storagepool.  If you start this at the beginning of November, you
can probably do each primary pool one at a time.  Then just do incremental
backup storagepools (incrementally) until you reach your 12/31/2004 date,
then do a backup database, and ship the dbbackup and the entire copypool to
wherever you want.  I'd personally then delete all those volumes and the
stgpool from the database.

However, please pay attention to Richard Sim's points.  This is actually
only a last resort of "malicious compliance."  <Grin>  So, in your "ship
offsite" package, you may want to include a server, OS install media, and
TSM install media, various drivers, etc.  Oh, and a tape drive.

Someone else mentioned conversion to ASCII.  I think this is a much better
way to go, but I've never been able to get it to fly with Management.
Hmm... Maybe paper.

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ferraretto [mailto:mark.ferraretto AT DB DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:59 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Taking an end-of-year snapshot


All,

We are running TSM 5.1.6.1 on AIX 5.1

What I want to do is to take an snapshot of our TSM data as it was at end
of year 1/1/04 and archive it away for 10 years.  Is this possible?  I
haven't found a way of doing it.

We need to make an end-of-year archive each year for legal etc purposes.
Running an archive of everything on one day doesn't seem practical - too
much data coming into the server.  But snapshotting the existing backup
data would be ideal.

I was thinking that I could generate a backup set and backdate the
snapshot the backup set would take but there doesn't seem to be an option
to do this.

Does anyone know how this can be done?

Thanks

Mark


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