See answers inline.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Theresa Sarver [mailto:IFMC.tsarver AT SDPS DOT ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:44 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Question on what to back up...


Hi All;

This may seem like an obvious question, but for some reason I'm having some
trouble with it.  The way this system was setup Tivoli is backing it's own
(UNIX) database and log files...and thus the backup fails every morning due
to changing [TSM] log files.

1)  Should these files be backed up at all?  I mean if you have to restore -
you're restoring from a db [tape] backup...right?  So can I just exclude
these TSM log/db files?

This backup is no good so just exclude them.

2)  If these db/log files should be backed up, wouldn't it make more sense
to have AIX/sysback back them up rather than Tivoli?  As you can't restore
these files anyway if Tivoli's offline.

You can do this but only if dsmserv is down.

The database and logs should be backed up with a "backup db
type=full/incr/dbs" command.  This backup has integrity.  Backups of the
database with any other utility will likely not be recoverable.

Thanks for the help;
Theresa