[Veritas-bu] cumulative incremental - best to use: when?

2006-08-17 Thread Siano, James C
At one time I used cumulative inc. for just about everything; however, then the realization that is was eating up tape galore. Would cum.incr. be more advantageous for certain situations. I was thinking in one case a database system called DOORS. It generates thousands of small files changing

Re: [Veritas-bu] cumulative incremental - best to use: when?

2006-08-17 Thread Ed Wilts
James C Siano wrote: Would cum.incr. be more advantageous for certain situations. Or where else would it be best used overall from those on the list using that formula? CumInc is used when you want to minimize the tape mounts for a restore and also to minimize the risk of data loss in case

Re: [Veritas-bu] cumulative incremental - best to use: when?

2006-08-17 Thread Bob Stump
Some NetBackup admins that use diffInc will throw in a CumInc in the middle of the week. "Ed Wilts" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/17/2006 7:43 AM James C Siano wrote: Would cum.incr. be more advantageous for certain situations. Or where else would it be best used overall from those on the list using that