What some people use in the situation you are describing is a low cost
product called TSMmanager. It can generate a daily email that sumarrizes all
the failed and missed backups as well as the amount of data backed up for
each client. You can have this automaticly emailed for a group of people.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bell, Charles (Chip)" <Chip.Bell AT BHSALA DOT COM>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:04 PM
Subject: [ADSM-L] Please help! - Three questions on handing TSM data over to
an application vendor


I have a vendor asking some application folks questions re: an upcoming data
migration. Some I think I can answer, but I would love your input.



1. What is the best way to give the application owner a view of last
night's backup? He only wanted last night's backup info, and understands
that
it is an incremental, so should I just send the output of 'q content
vol-name-here' to a document and send it to him? If so, how can I determine
what tape that data is on in primary storage? I'm assuming a select
statement?
2. Can I make a copy of a tape from a primary storage, while keeping the
original copy in the library? My gut says no, but they asked...
3. Does the vendor have to have a TSM client to read a tape with only
TSM backup data on it?



Your input would be extremely valuable to me, and of course, greatly
appreciated. I apologize if these are rookie questions, but I'm in a
befuddled funk right now.  :-)





God bless you!!!

Chip Bell
Network Engineer I
IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional
Baptist Health System
Birmingham, AL
Cell (256) 347-7294






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