Re: Resend - Policy and DRP question

2006-04-11 Thread Ben Bullock
ourselves rolling back the TSM server 8 days. It think that 1 or 2 weeks is pretty standard for folks on this list. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dudley Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 10:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Su

Re: Resend - Policy and DRP question

2006-04-11 Thread Jack Coats
eye has an opinion too. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Dudley Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 11:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Resend - Policy and DRP question I sent this query a week ago but have not received

Re: Resend - Policy and DRP question

2006-04-11 Thread David E Ehresman
You should keep ALL of your copypool tapes offsite. You should keep TSM db backup tapes offsite to match your 'del volhist'. You should set your reuse delay for your offsite copy storage pool to match the length of time you keep your tsm db backups, in your case 10 days. This last requirement of g

Resend - Policy and DRP question

2006-04-10 Thread Paul Dudley
I sent this query a week ago but have not received a reply back. I am resending in the hope that someone can offer some advice. We have TSM version 5.2 I have changed the standard policy so that we now keep the 10 latest versions of each file rather than 7. I have also changed our del volhist to

Re: Policy and DRP question

2006-04-04 Thread Richard Sims
TSM is not tape-oriented: it is stored-object-oriented. The copy storage pool contains an image of your primary pool(s) according to the policies for the objects stored in the primary pool. Your DR practices need to keep a copy of all data objects offsite, not just a fixed number of tapes. You're

Policy and DRP question

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Dudley
We have TSM version 5.2 I have changed the standard policy so that we now keep the 10 latest versions of each file rather than 7. I have also changed our del volhist to tod=today-10 where it was previously 7. I have been told that previously we had to keep the 7 latest copy tapes and db tapes of