Dorothy, 2 archives/day * 365.25 * 7 * 800b (600b+200b for copy) = about 4.1 MB/object at the end of 7 years. How many objects will you archive each day? When you're fully populated at 7 years, your database would have grown by only 1GB due to these archives if you're archiving as many as 240 objects twice a day. I'd say your archives, unless you're doing thousands of objects twice a day, probably shouldn't grow your database as much as you might fear.
Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -----Original Message----- From: Dorothy LIM Kay Choo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Permanent retention Hi Zlatko, Thks for the suggestion. I understand that the archive function will result in huge database. I believe there is a protential problem if the database grows too big. Because of the above, I tried to used backupset which was recommended to be as a better option. Regards, Dorothy Lim Systems & Network Division, United Overseas Bank Limited mailing address: 396 Alexandra Road, #04-00, BP Tower Singapore 119954 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // tel: 371 5813 // fax: 270 3944 Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in this communication (which includes any attachment(s)). If you are not an intended recipient, you must not use, copy, disclose, distribute or retain this communication or any part of it. Instead, please delete all copies of this communication from your computer system and notify the sender immediately by reply email. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Permanent retention Look at the "Archive" function of TSM client. It can be invoked from CLI by using "dsmc archive <objects> <options>" or from GUI/Web pressing button "Archive" instead of "Backup". With appropriate settings in archive copygroup (which is different from backup copygroup) this is very easy to achieve. Look for "def copy t=a" server command. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Dorothy LIM Kay Choo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02.12.2002 08:47 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Permanent retention Hi, I would like to seek advise on how to use TSM to keep my information permanent. Before the application, execute the end-of-day processing, a set of database will be dump. After the end-of-day processing, there is another dump to database which will overwrite the previous. I need to keep both set for a retention of 7 years. Any advise ? Regards, Dorothy Lim Systems & Network Division, United Overseas Bank Limited mailing address: 396 Alexandra Road, #04-00, BP Tower Singapore 119954 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // tel: 371 5813 // fax: 270 3944 Privileged/Confidential information may be contained in this communication (which includes any attachment(s)). If you are not an intended recipient, you must not use, copy, disclose, distribute or retain this communication or any part of it. Instead, please delete all copies of this communication from your computer system and notify the sender immediately by reply email. Thank you.
