Re: Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-16 Thread Ford, Phillip
Message- From: Allen S. Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Lots of newbie questions >> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:34:49 -0500, Troy Frank >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Where would you draw the

Re: Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-16 Thread David E Ehresman
We don't have 7 year retentions but we do have a process that does a 'move data' on any tape that was last written over a year ago. David >>> "Allen S. Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/16/2006 10:20:10 AM >>> >> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:34:49 -0500, Troy Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Where would y

Re: Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-16 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:34:49 -0500, Troy Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Where would you draw the line with this? For monthly snapshots, > you're saying it works better than archives/backupsets. Would you > also extend this to replacing yearly archives that need to be around > 7 years? I

Re: Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-15 Thread Troy Frank
Where would you draw the line with this? For monthly snapshots, you're saying it works better than archives/backupsets. Would you also extend this to replacing yearly archives that need to be around 7 years? I don't see why not, but I've not spent as much time mulling it over as you probably hav

Re: Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-15 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:04:11 -0500, Dave Mussulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Any opinion on archives vs. backupsets for a monthly snapshot kept for 6 > months? Yes; E) None of the above. If you want a monthly snapshot, define a new devclass, with different retention parameters; perhaps:

Re: Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-15 Thread Dave Mussulman
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:29:26AM -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote: > Said from another direction, TSM doesn't worry about selecting only > backed-up data from a stgpool when it's migrating, it takes whatever > is there. Thanks for the clarification. > > Best practice-wise, do you try to define diffe

Re: [OT] Re: Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-11 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:07:17 -0600, Andrew Raibeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Allen Rout wrote, in part: >> Reminds me of the first time I checked all of the volumes in a >> copystgpool out of my library. "Just this once", I thought. But once >> you're there in the back seat Uh. Digress

[OT] Re: Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-11 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Allen Rout wrote, in part: > Reminds me of the first time I checked all of the volumes in a > copystgpool out of my library. "Just this once", I thought. But once > you're there in the back seat Uh. Digression. Why do you always leave out the *good* parts of your stories! :-) Andy Raibe

Re: Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-11 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:10:09 -0500, Dave Mussulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I do my backups to a DISK pool that has a 85/40 migrate percentage and a > tape next storage pool. If everything (my disk and tape pool) is synced > up to my copypool before a backup runs, and the backup only goes

Lots of newbie questions

2006-08-10 Thread Dave Mussulman
Hello, Forgive the laundry list of questions, but here's a few things as a newbie I don't quite understand. Each paragraph is a different question/topic, so feel free to chime in on just a few or any that you're comfortable answering. Thanks! I'm using Operational Reporting with the automatic n