Bjorn

Are you sure that you need to do this?   Modern tapes are much more
reliable than their predecessors.  I went looking for some specifications
and it states at http://nle.ch/dl/LTO.pdf  that the archival life of LTO1,2
and 3 tapes is 15-30 years.  If that is so, then there is no need to copy
data to new tapes until at least 10 years has passed, assuming that they
have been stored in the correct environment.  You will probably have had to
make a new copy because of a change in tape technology in that time-frame.

The best housekeeping is the one you don't have to do,

Regards

Steve.

Steven Harris
TSM Admin, Sydney Australia




                                                                       
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Dear all,

looking at LAST_WRITE_DATE or LAST_READ_DATE of my tapes (some are in
2004), I'd like to move the data of tapes last accessed more than one
year to other tapes in the same storage pool to verify the health of the
tapes.

Is there any function inside TSM doing this automaticly?

if not, does anyone know / have a tool doing this?

my first attemp was to write a shell script extracting the tape's names
from the TSM-DB and run a MOVE DATA, but making this nice (e.g. like the
reclamation), it seems to become complex :-(


Second, how often should I move the data? once a year, more or less often?

thanks & best regards,

Bjørn

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