TSM Archiving 50tb data with millions of files

Thanks Rick, i was going to try an image backup, but was unsure of the impact to the db, would you recommend straight to LT05 or diskpool first then migrate to tape, since these are going to be kept for long term storage? B. +-

TSM Archiving 50tb data with millions of files

Need to archive 50tb of data with millions of files, here is the caveat, tsm db at 220gb, planning on upgrading from 5.5 to 6.2 in the near future, but currently waiting for newer hardware, how would one accomplish this without causing too much db bloat? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.