3) Yes, the command is: dsmc regback entire
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Clark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Help Please :0)
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> 1). Yes, you can checkout volumes from the tape library and store them
> offsite.
>
> 2). Yes. I believe it copies the registery then backs it up. Try your gui
> client and select system objects for NT.
>
> 3). Never did that but I can't see why not.
>
> 4).Yes, the data on the tape is encrypted.
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/00 03:06PM >>>
> Hello fellow *SMrs:
>
> I have a few questions that have recently popped up, that I am having a
> hard
> time finding the direct response.
>
> 1 - If we create archives, do these tapes always have to stay onsite? -We
> have over 250 servers and to keep this sort of data month after month for
> three to seven years, we just do not have that capacity. Therefore, I was
> wondering how I may accomplish creating archives and sending the tapes
> offsite and not having one onsite. I need long term data storage - I was
> working with backupsets, but they are time consuming and I really hate the
> idea that only 1 backupset goes to 1 tape - Ex: - if I have 2 gigs of
> information, I just wasted almost all of the tape for these 2 gigs.
>
> 2 - I know with NT that you can backup the registry. However, can the
> registry be backed up when the system is online and can you restore the
> registry to another location.
>
> 3 - Can you schedule a backup for just the registry - we have a situation,
> that we may want to back up just the registry of a particular server once
> every hour.
>
> 4 - The security team brought an interesting question to my attention. Is
> the data that we send offsite, via copy pool, encrypted to where someone
> could not just take the tape and view the data. My thoughts are that the
> data is encrypted and cannot be recovered without the TSM database and in
> order to restore the TSM database to another server, I would think there
> is
> some sort of security there.
>
> Any help on these matters would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Terry
