Here's a thought.

What if evey month you were to rename the filespaces of a node to a name 
containing the month?  e.g /data becomes /Feb02_data on 1 Feb.
Then, the next incremental would be a full on the /data filespace.  Delete the 
renamed filespace whenever the appropriate retention period has expired.

Then to get a true point in time snapshot facility we'd need a "clone 
filespace" command...., or could you do that with export/import?

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia 

>>> Nicholas Cassimatis <nickpc AT US.IBM DOT COM> 12/03/2002 7:40:38 >>>
How about month-end exports?  You can keep them for as long as you need,
but there is the extra step of re-importing them to be able to restore from
them.

When I'm confronted by someone trying to do a "traditional"
full-incremental-incremental scheme with TSM, explain how TSM works,
starting out with, "Unlike every other backup program you've ever used,
TSM..."  (And I seem to have to use that speech a lot...)

Nick Cassimatis
nickpc AT us.ibm DOT com 

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