Curtis Preston wrote:

* Ability to make archives from backups on hand.

Maybe I'm missing something in your post, but isn't that what a backup
set is for?

The tapes in a backup set (AFAIK) aren't tracked in anyway by TSM, and
aren't bound by any kind of retention on the server. I think they also
just work on the filespace level, and frequently we need to make
archives of data at the directory and file level.

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