You should probably look at the 'query content' command,
particularly the "copied=YES|NO" parameter. This will tell you if
there are any files on a specific volume that do|don't have
copies in a copy storage pool.

 -- Tom

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, John Schneider wrote:

>Greetings ADSMers,
>    I have a customer with an unusual request, but what they want is a
>perfectly legitimateconcern.  They have some very critical data that
>need to archive on a daily basis, and then they want to delete the data
>as soon as a good copy gets to tape.  There is too much data being
>generated this way to keep it around for more than a few days.
>    The problem is, they don't exactly trust tape, and with good
>reason.  They use DLT7000s, and they get a bad tape about once a month
>or so.  The backups and archives go straight to tape, and seem to be
>fine, but then when they try to make a copy storage pool to send the
>data offsite, they find a bad tape, and some of the data can't be read.
>With backups this is not too critical, since usually the original is
>still there, and the next backup picks it up once the bad tape is
>deleted.
>    But with the archives, the goal is to be able to delete the original
>
>copy as soon as the archive gets done.  The only way I can think of to
>satisfactorily handle this is to archive the file, then wait a couple
>days, and then from a script figure out if a certain file has been
>archived, and also that the copy storage pool copy has also been
>successfully made.  This proves at least that the first copy was a good
>one, otherwise the backup storage pool would have failed.  Once the
>script determines that there are two copies of the archive, then it is
>considered safe to delete the original.
>    Does anybody already have a script that does something like this?
>Is is hard to find out if a certain file has made it to the copy storage
>
>pool?
>
>Thanks for any suggestions.
>John Schneider
>
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