Chris,

well yes, or as in my case, I'm trying to sell the ADSM to Unix guys (...
and I'm one of them ::)) who's been used to 'dump' they FS with schedule
schema that see a window of 30 days of 'on-line' backup, plus monthly
archives of the same FSs which should be kept for (ever?).

Why ADSM doesn't allow to export (or archive if you like) through a
photograph of the current on-line Backup/DB/StoragePool?

IBM, please reply ... thank you

Mauro TINELLI - STMicroelectronics - Agrate IT

>      Hello all,
>
>      Wanda Prather wrote:
>
>      <quote>
>      You could use the Export function to do that.  Or, just open the
>      Properties of the tape you want to remove, and change its access
mode
>      to "offsite". Then ADSM won't call for that tape again.  However,
the
>      data base entries describing the tape and its contents will
remain.
>      <unquote>
>
>      However, volumes in a primary pool aren't allowed to have an
offsite
>      status, so...
>
>      Our site really wants to do a lot of archiving, for legal and
other
>      purposes. But I also have to make backups, and now I'm having
problems
>      archiving and backupping the same (!) data within the available
>      window.
>
>      IBM, why can't ADSM do some kind of backup-to-archive conversion
for
>      specific data of a specific client at a specific time. And then
allow
>      for offsite vaulting of volumes in an "archive storage pool"? All
the
>      data I want to archive is already at the ADSM server in the form
of
>      backup, so why not simply copy it?
>
>      Please comment on this idea.
>
>      Regards,
>
>      Chris Roelofs
>      Mainland Sequoia