Have you thought about creating a separate copy pool for Y2K ?  Copy your
primary storage pools to it, take a database backup and set them aside for
as long as you need it.

                -----Original Message-----
                From: Phil Bone [mailto:PBone AT AFLAC DOT COM]
                Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 12:16 PM
                To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                Subject: Y2K ADSM System "Snapshot"


                I need to take a snapshot of my ADSM system in a pre-Y2K
state.  These tapes
                are to be held in reserve for a few weeks as a Y2K
contingency plan for
                recovery.

                One way to accomplish this, so I have been told, would be to
mark all the
                tapes in the COPYPOOL (the DR set of tapes) as destroyed.
The system would
                then re-create each of the 230 tapes exactly as they were.

                Another option would be to delete each of the COPYPOOL
volumes with a
                discarddata=yes.  We then could "rebuild" the COPYPOOL
tapes, and get a full
                reclamation in the process.

                Would anyone care to comment on the
advantages/disadvantages/risks/benefits
                of either of these procedures, or perhaps propose another
way to accomplish
                the task?

                Thanks in advance.


                Phil Bone
                Sr. Systems Consultant
                Network Services, Infrastructure Management
                Office: 706.596.5928
                Fax: 706.596.5950
                Email: pbone AT aflac DOT com
                Email: philbone AT mindspring DOT com