Bill,

Just a thought,

If you were to set up a virtual volumes environment (looped back to the same 
TSM server if necessary), could you run a backup to a stgpool based on those 
virtual volumes, then run backup stg on the stgpool holding the virtual volumes 
to give you the second copy?

Kludgy, but it might work.

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia 

>>> billsh AT US.IBM DOT COM 18/07/2003 2:01:30 >>>
 Hello,

     Using TSM, does anyone have a method for protecting their NAS data
offsite?  NAS storage pools do not allow backup stgpool nor exporting.  It
appears the only way is to send primary tapes offsite.  We also have a need
to set policies based on date retentions (archive) instead of number of
versions (backups).

Thanks,
Bill



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