Re: Full backups again

2001-11-28 Thread John Naylor
Thanks to my respondents. Andy Raibeck's reply looks like a good way to go ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It

Re: Full backups again

2001-11-27 Thread Nicholas Cassimatis
Another option would be to have a special schedule that runs weekly to do a Selective rather than Incremental backup. Of course, you end up with 3 schedules for these nodes (weekday, Saturday and Sunday, of which, one is the selective backup), but you get your weekly full backup in. Nick Cassima

Re: Full backups again

2001-11-27 Thread Joe Faracchio
I would start by asking the requestor what is the goal???. What are they (really) trying to accomplish???. Then look at the features in TSM and try to match the goal/ requirement with the feature. (archive, backupset, copypool,mirror'd DB, roll-forward log offsite db backups, etc, etc) Seem

Re: Full backups again

2001-11-27 Thread Andrew Raibeck
< Am I correct that you need to set the backup copygroup mode to absolute for every management class mentioned in the dsm.opts plus the default, before the "full backups", and reverse it back to modified afterwards. > Yes, that's one way to do it. However, if you have clients in the same domain t

Full backups again

2001-11-27 Thread John Naylor
Hi all, I may be required to implement a weekly full backup for certain of our key netware data servers. I have used all the arguments against this pointing out that you do not need it with the incremental forever philosophy of TSM. I have also pointed out that if you do need it, backupsets are th