Well,
TSM has been out there for quite some time, so I think you have to trust the
product design a little,
and the product is designed so that every time you backup your primary storage
pool to your copy
pool it will back up everything in that primary storage pool that it has not
alraedy backed up.
So if you get a success message you can be happy.
Be aware that if you do a daily backup from your disk storage pool to your copy
pool(recommended), that
you will also need to do a later daily backup from your primary tape pool after
migration to catch any data that is migrated before you run your disk storage
pool copy
John





Joni Moyer <joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com> on 03/20/2002 12:29:46 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu>

To:   adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu
cc:    (bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE)
Subject:  Backups missed



Hello,

I have TSM on the mainframe. I have just taken it over and I am still
learning.  The previous administrator had administrative schedules
migrating the data from disk to an onsite tape pool and then doing a tape
to tape copy from onsite to offsite tapes.  I was wondering how it is
possible for data to not be copied to the offsite pool?  If the data is
moved to tape and then it is copied offsite, how is this possible?  I know
that you get a message at the end of the job if it was successful  or not
and how many files were missed.  My problem is I don't have access to the
client side of the servers.  I am only in charge of making sure that things
are backed up and running smoothly.  Is there an easy way to monitor if
everything is being copied from onsite to offsite tape?  Are there certain
error messages that I should be searching for on a daily basis?  I'd
appreciate any help that I can get.  Thanks!!!!!

Joni








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