>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:08:43 +1030, "Cheung, Richard" >> <richard.che...@santos.com> said:
> Business requirements to have quarterly backups to be retained for > 25 years Don't let that requirement waste your time generating extra-extra^(25*4) copies. Use: VEREXISTS: 110 VERDELETED: 110 RETEXTRA: 9500 (or NOLIMIT, perhaps) RETOLNY: 9500 (or 10000, perhaps) and run an incr once a quarter. You may want to deploy a distinct TSM server for this purpose, perhaps on the same hardware, but that'll help keep them distinct. This way, you're still able to use TSM's abstraction layer to permit media migration, you will only re-copy changed data (saving you (25*4)-1 copies of e.g. config.sys) and you'll be able to schedule and monitor the damned things - Allen S. Rout
