Hello,

        Currently our backup strategy for the TSM Servers is as follows on a
daily basis.

1. Backup 'diskpool' to 'copypool'
2. Backup 'tapepool' to 'copypool'
3. Full back up of DB

        From what I understand this is the most bullet proof method.
However we are at edge of our tape libraries capacity and the 3 steps above
are taking about 4 1/2 hours to complete each day.

        Is anyone using a strategy that would reduce both the amount of time
and possibly the number of volumes needed for these administrative tasks.

Thanks,

Jon Martin