>Another approach might be to occasionally
>(every three months maybe) do a "full" backup (by changing mode to
>"absolute" to force even unchanged files to get backed up)... this
should
>effectively "defragment" the tape pool and put all active versions on
one
>(or a couple) tape.  We did this once with an additional machine that
we
>DR'ed and it worked quite well.  Some people don't like this concept
>because it defeats TSM's "progressive" backup methodology, but I think

>its
>an acceptable compromise.
>

An alternative which does not involve client resources is to do a move
nodedata command to consolidate a node's data onto a set of tapes.

David Ehresman