HEllo,

we do archive our diatheque (more than 3'000 dias with a size of 30 MB,
total 90 GB) on Magstar in an IBM 3494 library. The backup copy group for
the specific managment class is defined as " 1  1  0  NOLIMIT".

Regards,

René Lambelet
Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Pilgram
> [SMTP:Christoph.Pilgram AT BC.BOEHRINGER-INGELHEIM DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 9:00 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Archiving
> 
> Hy everyone,
> 
> we are discussing the possibilities of archiving data with TSM or other
> products (from NT,UNIX).
> Our requirements are to archive data for about 30 years. TSM is in
> discussion because we use it already for backup ( and in some cases we use
> the archive-command ).
> The policy domains for the clients for archiving will be (from my point of
> view) totally different to those for backup.
> 
> Can anybody share his good (or bad) experience in long term archiving with
> whatever kind of library in the background (DVD or tape).
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Christoph