Roy - create a separate tape storagepool for this one customer.
Allow it to use unlimited scratches. After each month's archive
there will be one or more tapes in readwrite access with a status of
full or filling. Update these tapes to readonly, eject them and send offsite.
Whenever you need to find the tape from a particular month's archive, do
this select -
Select volume_name from volumes
where stgpool_name = 'specialarchivepool'
and year(last_write_date) = <year-in-question>
and month(last_write_date) = <month-in-question>
Hope this helps,
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Bill Colwell
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.
At 10:39 AM 4/15/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Sorry Guys,
>
>Maybe I didn't explain myself very well. Here is the situation:-
>
>We have a customer who now requires that EVERY month, an archive is
>taken to a management class that may be 7 or 10 years.
>
>Obviously over a period of time, this data will be migrated from disk
>to tape, and then the ONSITE copies will just sit in the library taking
>up valuable slots.
>
>I don't want this to happen!. Over a prolonged period, we will run out
>of slots!. So, the solution that I came up with, is to save directly to
>tape, and then send those tapes offsite, thus "freeing" up the slots.
>Now obviously, this is NOT an ideal solution, I realise that!. But what
>other options do I have?.
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Roy Lake
>RS/6000 & TSM Systems Administration Team
>Tibbett & Britten European I.T.
>Judd House
>Ripple Road
>Barking
>Essex IG11 0TU
>0208 526 8853
>rlake AT tandb.co DOT uk
>
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