I missed the first part of this thread, but have you looked at generating
backupsets and keeping those offsite for 7 years, instead of doing
archives?


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Thanks for the reply Paul, strangely enough your original reply never
reached me through the mailing list. From the information you have given me
it looks like we are in a bit of difficulty as Tivoli Storage Management
was originaly sold to us under the premise that it would be able to do this
easily with minimum fuss.

Our business requirements for storing data offsite are slightly different
due to legal responsibilities which require us to keep historical data for
at least 7 years. Hence our need to not keep a copy of this archival within
our LTO Library. I can't imagine the sort of problems we would encounter if
we did do this. I'll read through yours and Dale's solutions again and see
if what your suggesting will be feasible for us to do. I like the overflow
idea which would be a simple thing to implement, not sure what would happen
with partially filled tapes however, I assume they will need to be manually
moved after each monthly archival is completed.

Gordon


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