Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-06-08 Thread Hammersley, Richard
In my experience much of the time to restore when using tape is traversing the actual tape to get to the file(s) that TSM is to restore. You may want to think of colocation for your primary storage pool and copy pool. Restore time seems to be one of the trade offs vs. shorter backup time, fewer

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-06-04 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Tue, 29 May 2007 09:49:18 +1000, Paul Dudley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, I will give it a go, but this just confirms my belief that TSM is the most user-unfriendly, frustrating, annoying, unwieldy IT system I have encountered in 22 years of IT work. Perhaps the frustration is at least

AW: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-30 Thread Salak Juraj
2007 01:49 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: Point in time restore problem Well, I will give it a go, but this just confirms my belief that TSM is the most user-unfriendly, frustrating, annoying, unwieldy IT system I have encountered in 22 years of IT work. Regards Paul

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-28 Thread Paul Dudley
Of William Boyer Sent: Sunday, 27 May 2007 1:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Point in time restore problem Instead of doing a SELECTIVE backup on a periodic basis, which won't update the last backup date/time of the filespace, use the MODE=ABSOLUTE of the backup copygroup

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-26 Thread Paul Dudley
Of Richard Sims Sent: Friday, 25 May 2007 9:07 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Point in time restore problem On May 25, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Paul Dudley wrote: Does a selective backup count as an absolute/unqualified Incremental backup? No; the two are rather different animals

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-26 Thread Richard Sims
On May 26, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Paul Dudley wrote: OK - can I perform an absolute/unqualified incremental backup from the command line using the dsmc command? If so then how? I cannot see the correct option to use under dsmc incr. There is no option... That's the whole point - it's unqualified:

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-26 Thread Paul Dudley
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Saturday, 26 May 2007 11:57 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Point in time restore problem On May 26, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Paul Dudley wrote: OK - can I perform an absolute/unqualified incremental backup from the command line using

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-26 Thread William Boyer
Subject: Re: Point in time restore problem From what I read the standard incremental backup is restricted in that it only backs up new or changed files since the last incremental backup. However I have been told that we need to run absolute incremental backups on a periodic basis

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-25 Thread Richard Sims
On May 25, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Paul Dudley wrote: Does a selective backup count as an absolute/unqualified Incremental backup? No; the two are rather different animals in their intent and operation. The major manifestation of this is the Last Incr Date report from Query Filespace being

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-24 Thread Paul Dudley
in time restore problem On May 22, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Paul Dudley wrote: We perform incremental backups each night and occasional archive backups on our mail server (which is linux OS) I am currently performing a point in time restore via the GUI for an account on that mail server

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Bartl
Paul, you'd see this behaviour when restoring using the -todate-option instead of -pitdate. If the GUI doesn't bring the desired results, also try the CL-client. Good luck, best regards, Michael Am 23.05.2007 um 04:24 schrieb Paul Dudley: We perform incremental backups each night and

Re: Point in time restore problem

2007-05-23 Thread Richard Sims
On May 22, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Paul Dudley wrote: We perform incremental backups each night and occasional archive backups on our mail server (which is linux OS) I am currently performing a point in time restore via the GUI for an account on that mail server. The point in time is last Friday

Point in time restore problem

2007-05-22 Thread Paul Dudley
We perform incremental backups each night and occasional archive backups on our mail server (which is linux OS) I am currently performing a point in time restore via the GUI for an account on that mail server. The point in time is last Friday morning. However the restore seems to be restoring

Point in time restore problem

2004-08-25 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH
Point in time restore over the GUI shows not up all folder, subfolder and data i can see without chosing point in time. Testing the point in time on the commandline says 'ANS1302E No objects on server match query'. the restore of the data works fine without point in time. The problem was

Re: Point in time restore problem

2004-08-25 Thread Bill Boyer
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Point in time restore problem Point in time restore over the GUI shows not up all folder, subfolder and data i can see without chosing point in time. Testing the point in time

Re: Point in time restore problem

2004-08-25 Thread Aaron Durkee
Of Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Point in time restore problem Point in time restore over the GUI shows not up all folder, subfolder and data i can see without chosing point in time. Testing the point in time

AW: Point in time restore problem

2004-08-25 Thread Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Schaub Joachim Paul ABX-SECE-ZH Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Point in time restore problem Point in time restore over the GUI shows not up all folder, subfolder and data i can see without chosing point in time. Testing the point in time