If you delete the files in a primary storage pool from the TSM DB, the
copy pool version is deleted as well.

Simple solution:

Let the data migrate from your archive disk pool to an archive tape pool
(primary), and send those tapes offsite.    
DRM doesn't support vault management of primary tape pools, but
Autovault does.
You can also set up do-it-yourself scripts.  (But it's cheaper just to
buy Autovault.)





 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Robert N. Jones
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 4:36 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Archive to Offsite Tape

All,

I am sketching out my plan for running an archive session, I want to
move
the data to off-site tape and not keep any of the data in a primary
storage
pool. My hope is to conserve space on my tape library for regular backup
data.

Here is my game-plan and my problem:

1. Data goes to the archivepool (disk)

2. Data gets backed up to archivecopypool (tape) and the tapes are
removed
from the library.

3. Now what do I do with the data in archivepool? I don't want to
migrate it
anywhere. I am satisfied with the copy that I have on the
archivecopypool.
What do I need to do to dump the data so that my archivepool is
available
for the next archive session?

Thanks,

Sincerely,
Robert N. Jones

Network Administrator
Information Technology Services
Lafayette College
Pardee Hall, Room 11
Easton, PA 18042

610-330-5727