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Re: policy domain suggestion

2002-02-01 09:58:12
Subject: Re: policy domain suggestion
From: Andrew Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:54:39 -0500
Based on your copygroup settings:

> The backup of the Friday has to be retained for 4 weeks.

For the above case, your copygroup settings guarantee that you will be 
able to recover any backup version up to 33 days ago, which exceeds the 4 
week (28 day) requirement.

> The backup of the first of every month has to be retained for 13 months.

The above case is more of an archive requirement than backup requirement. 
You could create backupsets on the first of every month, which will 
include all the active versions as of that day. Alternatively, you could 
consider scheduling an ARCHIVE command to run on the first of every month 
to archive the required data and retain it for 400 days (a nice, even 
number that comes out to almost exactly 13 months).

Another possibility is to create a schedule that runs an incremental 
backup on the first of every month, define a second node for the machine, 
and associate that new node with the monthly schedule. You will also need 
to create a management class and copy group for this new node that has 
version and retention settings to accommodate your 13 month requirements. 
On the client machine, create a new options file with the second node name 
in it and an INCLUDE statement to bind the files to the new management 
class, and a second scheduler for the new node.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

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A client asked me to create the following policy domain:
The incremental backup of every night has the copy group
*) Versions Data Exists = nolimit
*) Versions Data Deleted = nolimit
*) Retain Extra Version = 33
*) Retain Only Version = 33

The backup of the Friday has to be retained for 4 weeks.
The backup of the first of every month has to be retaind for 13 months.

Is the policy domain achievable?
Do you have any suggestion to realize the policy domain?

Every suggestion is welcome.
Every review is much more welcome.

Paolo Nasca
Cleis Technolgy srl
Via E. Raggio, 4
16124 Genova ? Italy
paolo_nasca AT datasys DOT it
paolo.nasca AT inwind DOT it
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