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Creating two tape copies offsite with each has Different Retention

2003-03-12 13:20:52
Subject: Creating two tape copies offsite with each has Different Retention
From: Edgardo Moso <edgardo_moso AT KINDREDHEALTHCARE DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:19:34 -0500
Hello Fellow TSMERs,

This is quite a wild idea but I just would like to solicit your opinions if
how could I satisfy the the requiremetn asked by manager. He wants in one
backup instance to create two copies for the two copy storage pools one for
onsite and one for OFFSITE.  I know this can be done in TSM 5.1.  Aside
from this he added that each of this shoudl have different retentions.
Say, onsite is 15 days retention and offsite  is only 7 days.   I tried
reading the technical manual of TSM 5.1 but I think it's impossible to do
this unless I will apply the concept of backup set.    I don't think the
new features of TSM 5.1 inlcudes this. What do you think, gurus?

If I used the backupset, does anybody of you have experience on this?  How
does the backupset performance behaves in the new TSM 5.1?

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Edgardo Moso