Creating a complete storagepool for archive

[waelti]

Hi,
a friend of mine has the problem, that his fileserver is nearly full. I checked the files and found out, that almost 40TB could be archived. The problem is, that there is no storagepool configured for archiving. The server is running on windows.
Is there a quick way to set up archiving with tapepool and copypool? He had to take over the TSM-server without instruction.

I have the following key points:
Archiving period 10 years
Storagepool disk:
name ARCHIVEPOOL
size 500GB
Storagepool tape:
name ARCHIVE_TAPE
Copypool tape:
name ARCHIVE_COPY

Has anyone a script or a compressed guide, something like
define stgpool ARCHIVEPOOL DISK highmig=85 lowmig=0
DEFINE VOLUME ARCHIVEPOOL I:\ARCHIVEPOOL\ARCVOL.01 FORMATSIZE=102400
etc., where you can easily set up the complete setup (including policy domain and everything that goes with it)?
In the TSM documentations the individual steps are too scattered for me and I'm afraid that I miss something and then don't find the error.

Kind regards
Walter Reis

 

[marclant]

What do you mean by archiving:

1. By archiving, do you mean HSM?
2. Or do you mean simply using the Backup/Archive client, perform an archive and then delete the data from source?

The distinction is important as the instructions will be different.

 

[waelti]

I mean point 2

 

[marclant]

If that node is already doing backups, at a minimum, all you'd need to do is update the archive copygroup for the management class that node is using to have destination=ARCHIVEPOOL. HELP UPDATE COPYGROUP

After updating the copygroup, you need to activate the policyset: HELP ACTIVATE POLICYSET.

 

[waelti]

Thank you for fast reply.
I did the following steps:
define stgpool ARCHIVEPOOL DISK highmig=85 lowmig=0
DEFINE VOLUME ARCHIVEPOOL I:\ARCHIVEPOOL\ARCVOL.01 FORMATSIZE=102400
DEFINE VOLUME ARCHIVEPOOL I:\ARCHIVEPOOL\ARCVOL.02 FORMATSIZE=102400
DEFINE VOLUME ARCHIVEPOOL I:\ARCHIVEPOOL\ARCVOL.03 FORMATSIZE=102400
DEFINE VOLUME ARCHIVEPOOL I:\ARCHIVEPOOL\ARCVOL.04 FORMATSIZE=102400
DEFINE VOLUME ARCHIVEPOOL I:\ARCHIVEPOOL\ARCVOL.05 FORMATSIZE=102400
define stgpool ARCHIVE_TAPE TS4500CLASS maxscr=10
define stgpool ARCHIVE_COPY TS4500CLASS maxscr=10
update stg ARCHIVEPOOL NEXT=ARCHIVE_TAPE
UPDate COpygroup STANDARD STANDARD STANDARD t=a dest=archivepool retv=3650
validate policyset standard standard
activate policyset standard standard

I hope, all is fine and I can test it today