Re: ADSM
1999-07-08 07:04:30
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Re: ADSM |
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Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> |
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Thu, 8 Jul 1999 07:04:30 -0400 |
>My question is this. Our ADSM server is set up to do incrimental backups,
>but there is one client who wants to perform full backups of his machine
>every week. I need to know if this is possible to do, and if so I need to
>know how to go about doing this. Thanks.
Your client is under-educated as to ADSM's preservation of data. You should
stress to them that there is absolutely NO NEED to perform a full backup to
assuredly preserve data. (You are doing storage pool backups, we presume.)
But, yes, it is still possible to do...
Backup, full (force) You can get a full backup of a file
system via one of the following methods
(being careful to weigh the
ramifications of each approach):
- At PC client: relabel the drive and do
a backup.
At Unix client: mount the file system
read-only at a different mount point
and do a backup.
- As server admin, do 'REName FIlespace'
to cause the filespace to be fully
repopulated in the next backup
(hence a full backup): you could then
rename this just-in filespace to some
special name and rename the original
back into place.
- Use a Management Class whose Copy
Group specifies MODE=ABSolute, which
causes files to be backed up
regardless of having been modified.
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