CORP Rick Willmore wrote:
I have many windows 2000 clients that I wish to backup using an incremental backup and specifying a MMC that is different than one specified in my dsm.opt using the inclu/exclu options. The idea is to have incrementals that are run daily and a seperate set of incrementals that are run monthly (different storage pool). Anyone have any suggestions? I am trying to avoid using an archive due to database size and the fact that the monthly incrementals are going to a tape pool that will remain in my library.
R.
Rick,
Have you considered doing image backups for your monthly backups? There are some limitations to this that you will need to look into, but having a regularly scheduled image backup (which can use a different management class, i.e. different retention values) has several benefits. Rather than go into all the ins and outs of image backups in this note I suggest you take a look the admin guides and see if this might work for you. However, I will mention one plus to doing regular image backups, when you have to do a full filespace restore it is much faster doing a "image plus incrementals" restore rather than the conventional restore!
As an example, I am currently working with a customer that is setting up an environment where they do regular incrementals 6 days a week using a a MC that keeps 7 versions (most of the critical files change daily). On the 7th day we take an image backup and that is set to keep 14 versions. Therefore, we have a PIT restore to any day in the last week with a daily resolution and PIT restore for anytime during the last 3 months with a weekly resolution. For longer term we are also doing quarterly archives that are kept for 3 years as well as a year end archive that is kept forever. This may not fit your needs exactly, but you can see how flexible TSM is.
-- Regards, Mark D. Rodriguez President MDR Consulting, Inc.
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