>I bring this up because we have over 200 tapes taking up space in the >library what are archives only and I would love to get these out and sent >offsite. Currently a second copy of these files is sent offsite, but I would >like to do away with that extra work too.
We move all full archive tapes out of our tape library every day via a script. So TSM can do this. We keep the tapes on a shelf in our Tape Library room (and send copies offsite still). You could send the source copies offsite easily too via a script. Just use move drmedia (i don't have the exact syntax becuase I'm not at work) but you just do that for a specific storage pool. Although we don't know what tapes will be used when a user issues a retrieve (we also don't know when a user issues a retrieve!) but tsm just asks to have the tape mounted - we have computer room operators that can perform that for us.
