> I've not been following this thread, but what about Instant Archive
instead
> of actually moving the data again?
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
> Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> PO Box 51313
> Colorado Springs CO 80919
> (719)531-5926
> Fax: (719)260-5991
> www.storsol.com
> lipp AT storsol DOT com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Alan R. White
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 3:04 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Wishlist [was: Re: Archives]
>
>
> Wouldn't it be cool if the policy copygroups contained additional
facilities
> for specifying that a revision of a file which corresponds to a weekly or
> monthly 'view' of a filesystem should be retained for an alternative
length
> of time? Expiration would have to get more intelligent (groans) so it
> doesn't expire these 'views' of data until the specified time. Reclamation
> etc would work as normal.
>
> I'm going to submit this as a request through the usual channels. This
means
> it won't get done unless everybody hits them with it. Anyone else think
this
> change would be a good idea?
>
> Regards
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Franco Martini <franco.martini AT RAIFFEISEN DOT CH>
> To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 2:18 PM
> Subject: Archives
>
>
> > Hi
> > We have the policy to make every week an archive and every
> > month one (different management classes).
> > So we decided to make every saturday morning a week archive
> > and every first day of the month a monthly backup.
> >
> > Now we have the problem that sometimes it happens that saturday is the
> first of
> > a month
> > and so ADSM makes two archives of the same data. :(
> > Thats a waste of network bandwith and Tapes.
> >
> > Is there a possibility to tell the ADSM Server if he makes a monthly
> archive
> > we dont want a weekly archive?
> >
> > Regards
> > Franco
> >
>
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