Do your quarterly backups remain onsite or are they sent offsite?  I 
guess it doesn't really matter, eject those tapes along with the most 
recent catalogue tape, keep them all together somewhere, and set an 
expiration for the images.

I understand the desire to keep it nice and neat online but sometimes 
that's just not possible.  Unless of course your catalogue data is on a 
filer and you snapmirror that volume/qtree to a remote site.  Then you 
don't even need to back it up.....

~JK

Moshe Linzer wrote:
> We would like to keep quarterly backups for infinity, but the indexes 
> are beginning to occupy too much disk space.  I understand that there is 
> no option to delete the index without expiring the backup on the tape as 
> well.  What is the solution?  Do we expire the tapes, but keep them on 
> the side and label them with the backup information, so they can be 
> imported back into the system when needed?  Any ideas on this subject 
> will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Moshe
> 
> 
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