>        Have been asked to restore a mail database using TDP for Lotus
>notes. There are a few things I want to find out prior to commencing the
>task. Have loacted a date that I think I need to restore from however when
>I check for PIT restore, the mail database I am looking for doesn't go
>back that far.
>This may be because the way ~TSM is set up we only keep three versions on
>the server. Is it possible to restore backups, from removable media, that
>are older than three or four days if your retention period is set to 3
>days ?

TSM is a policy/rule based system, governed by object status information
recorded in its database.  If the rules cause an object to expire, you can
no longer retrieve it from the ongoing TSM server, regardless that the
data-containing storage pool volume may still be intact.

  Richard Sims