On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:00, you wrote:
> Hy everyone,
>
> we are discussing the possibilities of archiving data with TSM or other
> products (from NT,UNIX).
> Our requirements are to archive data for about 30 years. TSM is in
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I don't know if this has changed with TSM. In ADSM 3.1, the maximum archive
period is 9999 days (~25 years)

> discussion because we use it already for backup ( and in some cases we use
> the archive-command ).
> The policy domains for the clients for archiving will be (from my point of
> view) totally different to those for backup.

We have different archive management classes (policies) for different
timeframes (1year, 5years,etc) and choose the appropriate for the archives.

>
> Can anybody share his good (or bad) experience in long term archiving with
> whatever kind of library in the background (DVD or tape).

Regarding tape technilogy, we are running a script that moves the data from
any volume which has not been accessed for a longer period (e.g 1year). This
make sure, that the data is readable even after 10 years.



>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Christoph