Yes, it's easy. You need to define a device class of TYPE FILE. The devclass name can be anything you want. MAXCAPACITY should be large enough to contain a DB backup. The directory should be the pathname where you want the file to go. You can define it via the command line or the browser interface, for example:
DEFINE DEVCLASS DBFILE DEVTYPE=FILE MAXCAPACITY=204800K MOUNTLIMIT=2 DIRECTORY=/var/adsmpool (If your server is Windows, change the directory to a D:\winpath\dir format) Then when you want to do the DB backup, you just specify the devclass and SCRATCH=YES: backup db type=full devclass=DBFILE scratch=yes When you specify scratch=yes, TSM will create a filename for you and put the DB backup into that directory. The suffix of the file will be .dbb. YOu can see in the activity log or volumehistory the name that gets created. If the DB backup takes more than MAXCAPACITY space, TSM will create a second file in the same directory and continue the backup in that file. If you do a DB RESTORE, TSM will find that file and use it. If you have moved the file off to a non-TSM tape of your own, you would need to put it back on disk where TSM expects to find it, or specify a new pathname in your RESTORE command. ************************************************************************ Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" - Scott Adams/Dilbert ************************************************************************ -----Original Message----- From: Michel David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 3:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Db Backup to a DISK devclass ?? Hi everybody I would like to save the db-backup to a disk (because his waste one/two slots in the jukebox), and to be able to restore it after from their. I could copy it to a sequential tape and after throw it to a disk. Does someone has an idea ? Thank you very much Michel DAVID MARNET __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com
