Gary,

"Do the copypools have the same characteristics? "  The answer is YES...if
for example you have
 20 backup versions of a file on your ONLINE pool....there should be 20 on
the COPYPOOL.

You don't have to send off 4 copypool tapes each  day,  one will do.

We have six online diskpools &  six corresponding online tapepools but the
data is backed up
 to one COPYPOOL tape which is sent off site on a daily basis.

Regards

Bill








"Matthews, Gary" <gary.matthews AT LOGICACMG DOT COM>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
08/06/2006 11:00
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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        Subject:        [ADSM-L] Retention Query


 Hi,

Am a complete newbie when it  comes to TSM and have just been handed a
W2K3 system to look after with TSM 5.3. The system hasn't gone live yet
and I'm trying to work out how many tapes I'm going to need for
offsiting. We have four pools for onsite with the following setup


Vers Data  exits                                 28
Retain extra(days)               31
Vers Deleted                             2
Retain Vers (days)               60

Do the copypools have the same characteristics?  If I'm sending four
tapes off a day how may tapes do I need for an offsite cycle ?? It's
just that the company that set things up have said that 30 LTO-3s should
be enough for onsite and offsite and I can't see how.

TIA

Gary (confused!)


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