Eric, this sounds like an extended hangover from the initial design --
as I recall, the 'archive' concept was an afterthought in the original
product.

I'd go along with Richard's suggestion -- set up a minimum size disk
storage pool with no nextpool and mark it readonly or unavailable.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:49 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Unable to archive files when there is no backup copygroup

Hi *SM-ers!
We have just implemented an archiving server. We only want archives on
this TSM server, so we created policies without a backup copy group.
This however causes the BA GUI to see all files as excluded.
I checked the TSM website and found Technote 1209666
(http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&q1=archi
ve+copygroup&uid=swg21209666&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en) which verifies
this behavior. So, although we don't want the user to be able to backup
to this server, we have to create a backup copy group, which allows him
to make backups!
Is this really "works as designed"? This sounds more like bug to me,
right?
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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