When I remove nodes for good and someone wants a copy kept forever, I
create 2-exports and then delete from TSM.  That way on the off chance
they want something, I simply import back into a TSM server.

Zoltan Forray
TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
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From:   Jim Davis <jjdavis AT EMAIL.ARIZONA DOT EDU>
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:   09/16/2011 01:05 PM
Subject:        [ADSM-L] Moving tapes offsite
Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



We have a department leaving our TSM system that would like to have the
tapes we've been using for them -- they'd keep them on a shelf and
presumably use tsmtape (or whatever) if they needed the old data.  I'm
not sure how to handle that request; I could mark the volumes 'offsite',
but they're really going out of the system completely.  But I don't want
to remove the contents of the tape, or move the tape contents to some
other volume, so 'delete volume' doesn't sound right.  Any suggestions?
 TSM 5.3, running on RHEL.  Thanks!

--
Jim Davis
Biotechnology Computing Facility
Arizona Research Labs