Hi,

I have seen a situation where BACKINT wouldn't recover unless it had a
prior selective backup of some SAP directories. Does anybody know if it
happens with other products ?

>We reluctantly employ a selective backup of certain directories on certain
>servers in a regular fashion in order to facilitate a slightly quicker
>recovery.
>The mentality is that you can recover quicker as it is more likely that yo
>data will be spread out across fewer tapes.
>The problem though is that many of our customer can't understand adsm's
>incremental forever architecture and insist on the full backup.
>In actual fact I doubt whether our this selective strategy will really buy
>us much more than 10 or 20mins. If you have a fully automated library
>requiring no manual mounts it's probably not worth it at all.
>Nathan
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kimelheim [SMTP:Mark_Kimelheim AT SBPHRD DOT COM]
>Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 12:02 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: selective backup prior to client maintenance?
>ADSM employs an "incremental forever" backup paradigm. However,
>we'll be
>performing maintenace on a client this weekend, and so the there
>will be a
>increased risk of data loss. Would it be prudent to take a
>selective
>rather than an incremental backup in anticipation of that
>maintenance? Has
>anyone adopted this practice?
>Thanks.
>Mark.