what you can do with adsm to put your data offsite is to create a copy
storagepool for your primary storagepool. then you copy your backup data each
day to synchronise the primary with the copypool and at the end of the week
you checkout all copypool tapes and take them to your bank.
through space reclamation the offsite tapes will become empty depending on
your policies, and you can check them in again. to keep track of this process
you can use DRM of TSM/ADSM.
This way you double your data, but need less tapes than with weekly
full-backups and off course you have your data present (up to the last
incremental) also it is in the bank.

Matthias



Matthias Fusser schrieb:

> Hello,
>
> If i don't tell the incremental backup that an selective backup occured it
> would be an incremental forever backup right?
> So some Tapes don't get scratched and have about 3% util and i need more
> tapes.
>
> I want the old incremental backup tapes from last week to get scratched.
>
> Perhaps i don't understand the adsm technics and the concept isn't right.
>
> Perhaps someone can send me his concepts to make an offset copy to store
> data to a bank and have a small incremental backup to stay in our house ?
>
> with kind regards
>
> Matthias