On a related note, there must be some sort of audit requirement floating around out there. Every time someone retires a server that has had financial data on it I'm told "we've made the final backup, send me the tape" and they *won't* take no for an answer. Most often at that point the server has been irretrievably damaged so client side manipulation is no longer possible,
For BA client stuff its fairly easy, just generate a backupset with the active data on it and sent it to them. For TDPs however it is more difficult, particularly the TDP for SAP as it keeps all its data as archives, and normally the archives aren't set to expire at all, so you get to keep *every* full backup that was cataloged at the time the server was retired, and all the incrementals in between, and this can be a very large amount of data. One strategy is to send them a random tape that they can pretend has their data on it, because the likelihood of a restore from that is minimal, but thats not my style. On 5.4 I have been able to export archives with a fromdate and time that is just before the last full backup. What about other TDPs? MSSQL, Exchange, Domino and Oracle use backups but backupsets only work for TDPs under TSM Express, don't they? Export active should work for those. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia "Clark, Margaret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To Sent by: "ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: [ADSM-L] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM 03/04/2008 11:06 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> My favorite is the customer who believes their every backup is on their own private tape, and will we just send it to them? - Margaret Clark, San Diego Data Processing -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM Hey there, folks! I'm working very hard on my next book, which will have some product-specific information in it. I'm covering multiple products, so I won't go TOO deep on individual products, but I'd like to do my best to cover misunderstood or frequently asked topics for each major product. I figured that no one would know better than this list which topics people tend to get confused. What topics do you think should go on that list? (I've got my personal preferences, but I don't want to prejudice your thoughts.) What are the top 5/20/30 things about TSM that you think people get wrong? TIA --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies