What I came up with was to EXPORT the data. Since their original retention
was 30-days, I figure that if I exported all the nodes' data > 30-days I
would be covered. This is the EXPORT I came up with:

export node * filespace=* domain=nobel filedata=all dev=lto
fromdate=12/17/2007 todate=-30 preview=no

The FROMDATE is the day the TSM server was installed. Don't know when we
started backing up data for this client, but that date should cover any time
period. Basically from inception of the TSM server instance to 30-days ago.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.

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Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:40 PM
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You only had a 30 day retention policy... If the data was deleted you could
only go back 30 days.

This doesn't seem to difficult an issue. For that much data and that many
nodes just run an archive on each system.

If they "must" have the data that is already saved... I'd say best bet is
backups sets.
I don't think backupsets can be created for SQL TDP clients though.




-----Original Message-----
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Bill Boyer
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:26 PM
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Current primary storagepool occupancy is 8.9TB.

32 nodes in the domain with 8 of them being TDP SQL agent nodenames.

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Ochs, Duane
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:32 PM
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How much data are you talking about ?

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Bill Boyer
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 2:29 PM
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History.have a client backing up with a 30-day retention policy
(vere=nolimit rete=30) and last week they came as requested that the
retention be change to No Limit across the board. Keep everything. Lawyers
involved. Now they feel that the resource requirements for doing that for an
indefinite period are more than they want to take on. So they asked that the
retention be set back to 30-days , but..and here's the fun part.they want to
tapes with the oldest backup data to be kept. You can see they have to
concept of TSM and are thinking of keeping the oldest full backup tapes
around so they could be re-cataloged if a restore is needed.


So my problem/question is how do I accomplish the same thing? Was thinking
EXPORT NODES, but what date range to use. Backupsets (no, I'm not 6.1! J)
isn't what I want either.



Any suggestions?



Bill Boyer

"He who laughs last probably made a back-up." Murphy's law of computing