To do a full backup use 'sel'.

Richard Sims wrote:

> >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.