On Jan 26, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Paul Dudley wrote:

...
If there are thousands of files backed up via TSM which will stay on
the
backup tapes in the library for a number of years probably without
being
required for a restore, is there a way of moving these files to tapes
which can then be checked out of the library, thereby freeing up slots
in the library for more scratch tapes?

You could employ a two-level storage pool hierarch and MIGDelay in the
upper level in conjunction with periodic migration, which would
migrate old files (actually, Aggregates) which had not been recently
used in restorals.  Thereafter you would use the principle described
in Admin Guide topic "Managing a Full Library" to externalize the
lower level volumes.  But: getting operators to respond to mount
messages to return tapes to the library is problematic.

    Richard Sims  http://people.bu.edu/rbs/